What Socialism is not in in 5 words

[VinnieUK]

Anything with a wages system.

[Charles Marxley]

holding hands and singing songs

[Per Levy]

party dictatorship over the proletariat.

[Skyhilist]

Kill him, he's too poor

[Kalinin's Facial Hair]

Union of the Soviet 'Socialist' Republics.

It took me 6 words, I lose.

[Blake's Baby]

state control of the economy

[Fourth Internationalist]

Obama and the Democratic Party

[Captain Ahab]

Fascism.

[Slavoj Zizek's Balls]

Something that can be one-lined.

[evermilion]

Ivory tower pedantry.

[sixdollarchampagne]

A one-party dictatorship

[Sudsy]

Not a one-party dictatorship
The thread was what socialism ISN't in five 5 words, so you're saying socialism ISN'T not a one party dictatorship, so with the double negative you are saying that socialism is a dictatorship. Ladies and gentlemen! This is how Trotskyists manipulate us:laugh:

[Deity]

The removal of muh' freedumbs!

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Taking all of your shit.


....No, seriously. This is one of the biggest myths about socialism here in the U.S.: The belief that socialists want to take everything you own and give it to someone else.

No sir, I don't want to take your house, or your car, or your television, or your clothes, or your cash, or anything else you might possess.

[Deity]

Taking all of your shit.


....No, seriously. This is one of the biggest myths about socialism here in the U.S.: The belief that socialists want to take everything you own and give it to someone else.

No sir, I don't want to take your house, or your car, or your television, or your clothes, or your cash, or anything else you might possess.

Maybe your cash...

[evermilion]

Maybe your cash...

We don't want to take your shit. We want to get rid of "your" and "my" altogether.

[sixdollarchampagne]

The thread was what socialism ISN't in five 5 words, so you're saying socialism ISN'T not a one party dictatorship, so with the double negative you are saying that socialism is a dictatorship. Ladies and gentlemen! This is how Trotskyists manipulate us:laugh:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is how pedants amuse themselves! :grin: EDIT: Upon reflection, Lenin held that socialism is a dictatorship, a dictatorship by the workers.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

An extreme form of humanitarianism.

Closer to liberalism than conservatism.

Utopias for the far future.

A tea party.

[roy]

State wage party Stalin banana

[evermilion]

Your grandmother's cooking sherry.