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Just because the USSR and its allies found it convenient to keep the term 'socialist' in their official names, doesn't mean the rest of us should go along with that. There is a perfectly acceptable, generally understood and basically unambiguous term for their ideology: communism. Which you're welcome to rail against, and the vast majority of American self-proclaimed socialists won't have an issue with that.

I once had a very long argument online with a dude who argued that you couldn't call the Soviets 'communists' because they never actually achieved communism.

That is, his argument was that Arnold Schwarzenegger could not truthfully have claimed to have seen communism with his own eyes as a boy who traveled to the Soviet-occupied portions of his country, in the same way that, I suppose, someone from Denmark could not claim to have seen Nazism with their own eyes during the Nazi occupation of that country. Because the Soviets were Socialists, and never achieved Communism.

For some people, beliefs about Socialism and Communism are consistent only in that they define the terms in whatever way is necessary to win today's point.

Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.
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Get your ass the hell off of my goddam lawn. damookster - 09/05/2019 03:02:49 AM 910 Views
What is it with the obsession about that word? Legolas - 09/05/2019 06:35:49 PM 513 Views
I was involved in a particularly annoying Facebook discussion *NM* damookster - 09/05/2019 08:49:57 PM 227 Views
Ah. Sorry I missed it. Or possibly not that sorry, I've really seen too many debates about that. *NM* Legolas - 09/05/2019 09:03:31 PM 229 Views
It was a triggering word that was made a triggering word in the US context. Roland00 - 09/05/2019 11:42:27 PM 455 Views
yah aerocontrols - 10/05/2019 02:45:46 PM 476 Views
I hope not on this site / wotmania? Legolas - 10/05/2019 07:23:02 PM 764 Views
No, not there aerocontrols - 10/05/2019 08:36:07 PM 451 Views
Re: No, not there Legolas - 10/05/2019 09:55:45 PM 472 Views
The Soviets were totally communists even if they didn't achieve communism. Tom - 19/05/2019 05:07:28 PM 435 Views
Socialism is the takeover of the means of production by the "people" (in practice, the state). Tom - 19/05/2019 05:06:19 PM 449 Views
Stop being a Fachidiot Mookie Roland00 - 09/05/2019 11:36:51 PM 461 Views
He is far from ignorant about the theory and history of the word. The Shrike - 10/05/2019 02:19:17 PM 460 Views
Release the hounds! aerocontrols - 10/05/2019 02:46:21 PM 411 Views
Do Platonic Ideal Dogs need to read? Roland00 - 10/05/2019 04:11:17 PM 434 Views
thank you damookster - 10/05/2019 04:23:58 PM 474 Views
Define the color Green. Roland00 - 10/05/2019 05:21:10 PM 444 Views
Wavelength: 495–570 nm; Frequency: ~575–525 THz The Shrike - 10/05/2019 08:44:56 PM 472 Views
Now define Green for a person that does not have a Spectrometer. Roland00 - 10/05/2019 08:50:44 PM 500 Views
Admit your defeat and move on. The Shrike - 10/05/2019 09:40:53 PM 458 Views
*NM* damookster - 12/05/2019 05:47:57 AM 210 Views
In what medium? jh - 12/05/2019 10:33:45 AM 525 Views
huh? aerocontrols - 12/05/2019 02:25:10 PM 462 Views
Remember that God Dammed Dress? Roland00 - 12/05/2019 07:46:39 PM 443 Views
Yeah, I do. *NM* aerocontrols - 12/05/2019 10:41:29 PM 201 Views
Light propagates differently in different mediums, though... fionwe1987 - 12/05/2019 08:10:19 PM 754 Views
Do you think that's what Jonte meant? I don't. aerocontrols - 12/05/2019 10:54:40 PM 470 Views
Optical refraction is caused by different speeds of light in different media Floffe - 14/05/2019 02:15:19 PM 454 Views
Ok then. aerocontrols - 14/05/2019 02:33:48 PM 458 Views
if you look at light with a wavelength of 550 nm in water jh - 19/05/2019 04:49:04 PM 535 Views
Well, jh - 19/05/2019 04:43:57 PM 526 Views
Sick your dogs onto me? Roland00 - 10/05/2019 04:24:00 PM 594 Views
Sic. Not sick. I will not have my dogs vomit on you. That's just nasty. *NM* The Shrike - 10/05/2019 06:48:24 PM 226 Views
I wasn't expecting such a prescriptivist approach from you. Legolas - 10/05/2019 10:06:08 PM 452 Views
We have a mixed economy with elements of both capitalism and socialism. The Shrike - 10/05/2019 02:17:36 PM 478 Views
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