EvilHomer - 2013-07-24
Which one is the conservative worm?
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kingarthur - 2013-07-25 Let me try again. See Hitch stare into the face of his future self!
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EvilHomer - 2013-07-25 Hitch is the man who convinced me to stop being a communist, God bless him.
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EvilHomer - 2013-07-25 But in fairness to his opponent, I'm pretty sure Hitch *was* still a communist at this point.
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Old_Zircon - 2013-07-25 I think he was a socialist. I think this because he sys he is a socialist in the clip.
Socialism isn't communism.
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EvilHomer - 2013-07-25 He was a Trotskyite, which I think most people, Trotskyites included, would be comfortable calling "communist".
Of course, you could split hairs endlessly about the terminology, since both labels are used by different speakers in different in different contexts. For instance, are Leninists communists, or socialists? For more purposes, people would call them communists, but they weren't technically communists, not in the theoretical Marxist sense. Rather, they were socialists, "benevolent paternalists" who believed that their brand of vanguard socialism would pave the way for an eventual transferral of power to a decentralized communist society. Yet you'd be hard pressed to find anyone, diehard Leninists included, who'd throw a wobbly over being called a communist.
Saying "socialism is not communism" is certainly true, in some senses, but I don't think it's really relevant when the person in question is (was) a very public Trotskyite.
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EvilHomer - 2013-07-25 ^ "different senses" and "for most purposes".
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Maru - 2013-07-24
"Dangerous compromises."
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baleen - 2013-07-25
I do miss him.
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Bort - 2013-07-25
For a while in Egypt, Lucius Vorenus took to eating his feelings.
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Jet Bin Fever - 2013-07-25
oh, I love watching him squirm.
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Father Avalanche - 2013-07-25
My favorite David Wain character.
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