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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is random. Have you been oppressed by socialism your whole life, OP? Do you feel like it's affecting you here in the US?[/quote]
Not OP, but my younger years have been stunted by the grim reality of socialism (hard-core, not some Swedish model Americans like to idealize). It is not affecting me in the U.S., but I fear it may affect the next generation. It would be incredibly unfortunate.[/quote]

I suspect by "hardcore socialism" you mean communism. They are very, very different things
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No, I mean actual Marxist socialism. Communism has not been built yet. It is what socialists aspire to, but nobody has achieved that level of enlightenment though. [/quote]

-perhaps because "that level of enlightenment" is a ridiculous and impossible fantasy, as history has proven repeatedly?[/quote]

I'm pretty sure the PP wrote about "that level of enlightenment" in a tongue-in-cheek manner.  Pull that stick out of your rear.

Pure Communism - as envisioned by Marx and Engels - requires men to be enlightened angels. Not gonna happen. That said, that doesn't mean we need to embrace the most heartless and orgiastic aspects of capitalism either. [/quote]

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