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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this board still pretending he isn’t a communist as video surfaces of him describing his end goal of seizing the means of production? Open your eyes.

https://thepostmillennial.com/communist-zohran-mamdani-admitted-in-2021-the-end-goal-was-seizing-the-means-of-production[/quote]

The first thing you should do is to learn the difference between socialism and communism.  Then you should learn about socialist systems that exist.  Once there, maybe spend five minutes learning about successful social democracies.  Ok, once you have that background down you can think about what you actually could implement in the US (probably not much of it) and how almost any of it would improve the lives of average Americans.  I know that republicans have you convinced that you should lick the boot of billionaires, and you can, but the rest of us aren’t.[/quote]

Oh please. Stop pretending. This guy is using the veil of “social democracy” to promote blatantly communist concepts such as seizing the means of production. It’s plain as day. [/quote]

But when the "means of production" are not producing for the people, what is wrong with government intervention? [/quote]

Mamdani is rich. Obviously our system has worked just fine for him.
Go back and read your history book about the millions killed in communism.[/quote]

Again, you are confusing socialism with communism.

I’m glad that this is all happening.  Using socialism as some boogeyman has to end. Social Security, public education, libraries, infrastructure, all SOCIAL SYSTEMS.  You know, socialism.

Don’t worry, though, the republicans are convincing a bunch of fools that they don’t even deserve that return on their own money.  You’ll pay taxes and you’ll get nothing from them and you’ll like it.[/quote]

+100. Social security is the most popular social program.   [/quote]

Good grief.  The US is based on capitalism.  Not socialism.  
Socialism, as Mamdani would like, is NOT a good thing.  The piece that was linked upthread about socialistm has this little bit that you all are ignoring:

"Capitalism, with its belief in private ownership and the maximizing of profits, stands in contrast to socialism, [b]but most capitalist economies today have some socialist aspects.[/b]"

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/socialism.asp

Just because the US has some aspect of socialism, that doesn't mean that socialism is good or that the US is a socialist country.  
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I wonder how socialism worked for the elderly in other socialist countries.  Didn't people die by starvation in many of the previous socialist experiments?[/quote]

Yes.[/quote]

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