The Cultural Revolution is here
03-23-2005, 11:48 PM
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The Cultural Revolution is here
Read similarities between David Horowitz and the Communists of old:
http://billmon.org/archives/001752.html
http://billmon.org/archives/001752.html
03-24-2005, 09:36 AM
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Here is a counter to that
http://discoverthenetwork.org/default.asp
http://discoverthenetwork.org/default.asp
03-25-2005, 01:20 PM
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After wading through Horowitz's thick, empty rhetoric for half an hour, I still came up empty on counters to the points in my link. enlighten me
03-25-2005, 04:23 PM
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Those ideals aren't neccesarily tenets of Communism. They do however share some similarities with Maoism. But look long and hard enough and you can draw pretty much any parallel you want to. I could go on for pages that the Bible espouses a socialist society, but on the flip side of that coin I could go on even longer that it espouses a capitalist society.
In the end you're just mad cause Horowitz used to be on your side.
In the end you're just mad cause Horowitz used to be on your side.
03-25-2005, 05:08 PM
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good point. i think it is first important to differentiate between mao's communism and the ideology of communism.
for real though, have you guys actually read his stuff? he is pretty loopy
for real though, have you guys actually read his stuff? he is pretty loopy
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Originally Posted by ftnssn
dub2w, you're never going to get to Fascist station on dubya train, because fascists don't use god as a guiding principle.
Regardless, there's no way to justify fascism in the United States. You may be able to pick-up on weak arguments based on religion and socioeconomics but that's about it. If this was a fascist country then there wouldn't be congress, Bush would have absolute power as a Dictator and every Muslim would be in a concentration camp by now and their mosques destroyed etc etc etc.
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03-28-2005, 09:17 AM
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haha... hijacked thread again!
i dont think we live in a fascist state. but sometimes it feels like that is the direction our country is going. the whole "either with us or against us" is a dictate that has no place in the democratic Americas
btw, nice historical reference there salty. you hit the nail on the head (me thinks)
i dont think we live in a fascist state. but sometimes it feels like that is the direction our country is going. the whole "either with us or against us" is a dictate that has no place in the democratic Americas
btw, nice historical reference there salty. you hit the nail on the head (me thinks)
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