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Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

I lost it when he bit through the banana.

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deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

Baloogan posted:

bernie sanders hasn't made a sandwich for himself in decades


bernies sanders loving flew to rome to eat with the pope on your donar money, including a 7 cource meal en route

your loving oscialist fraud hosed you

im glad i spent money so bernie could visit the pope and also i didnt give bernie any money

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


if you subscribe to chapo all your money goes to bernie for his next cabin

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
u knoew its called a cuckshed in the lingo of the times

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Baloogan posted:

fair weather socialist

nothin wrong with living in california :colbert:

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009
Rainy Boys of Socialism

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Baloogan posted:

bernie sanders hasn't made a sandwich for himself in decades


bernies sanders loving flew to rome to eat with the pope on your donar money, including a 7 cource meal en route

your loving oscialist fraud hosed you

He's just a dem soc which by definition is a form of liberal. So I could care less what he does

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009

Larry Parrish posted:

He's just a dem soc which by definition is a form of liberal. So I could care less what he does

what definition of liberal are you using

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Enjoy posted:

what definition of liberal are you using

The correct definition. Liberals can decry the inequality of capitalism and suggest universal provision of things without being socialist.

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

dont even start you commie dorks

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009

namesake posted:

The correct definition. Liberals can decry the inequality of capitalism and suggest universal provision of things without being socialist.

but what is the correct definition?

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

no room for such nerdery in my socialism!

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Enjoy posted:

what definition of liberal are you using

one in which the irony poisoning has become so intense that u literally can't imagine a form of socialism that doesn't include brutal, arbitrary repression

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


jarofpiss posted:

dont even start you commie dorks

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Enjoy posted:

but what is the correct definition?

Of liberal?

A philosophy based on the Enlightenment concepts of individual rights and principles of individual freedom and equality in law.

It was a step up from monarchy but Marx's investigation and later the field of sociology have shown its many failings and flaws philosophically and in practise, hence socialism not making the same mistakes and centring itself around humanity as it exists, in groups and born into situations beyond any individual control based on the economic conditions and class structures.


jarofpiss posted:

dont even start you commie dorks

Gentlemen you can't discuss socialist theory here, this is the LF thread!

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
bernie is the real compromise candidate

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009

namesake posted:

Of liberal?

A philosophy based on the Enlightenment concepts of individual rights and principles of individual freedom and equality in law.

It was a step up from monarchy but Marx's investigation and later the field of sociology have shown its many failings and flaws philosophically and in practise, hence socialism not making the same mistakes and centring itself around humanity as it exists, in groups and born into situations beyond any individual control based on the economic conditions and class structures.

is support for parliamentary democracy incompatible with viewing humanity as it exists?

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Enjoy posted:

is support for parliamentary democracy incompatible with viewing humanity as it exists?

Parliamentary democracy is just a form of representative democracy so it is compatible but taking control of it doesn't automatically mean anything unless the economic structure is also taken control of and changed at the same time.

Bernie is a social democrat because he argues for the reorganisation of select industries to maximise individual freedom from worrying about access to them or that wealth inequalities threaten the idea of equality before the law, not that the nature of capitalism itself is exploitative and must be all taken down.

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009

namesake posted:

Parliamentary democracy is just a form of representative democracy so it is compatible but taking control of it doesn't automatically mean anything unless the economic structure is also taken control of and changed at the same time.

Bernie is a social democrat because he argues for the reorganisation of select industries to maximise individual freedom from worrying about access to them or that wealth inequalities threaten the idea of equality before the law, not that the nature of capitalism itself is exploitative and must be all taken down.

larry parrish said he's a democratic socialist and therefore a liberal

let's put aside the question of bernie sanders specifically. i think it is wrong to say that supporting parliamentary democracy is incompatible with socialism

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

lol if u think bernie doesn't have more radical views privately

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

A lot of now bitter marxboys in 2008 posted:

lol if u think obama doesn't have more radical views privately

Serf
May 5, 2011


Karl Barks posted:

lol if u think bernie doesn't have more radical views privately

so are you saying he has a public view and a private view? :D

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Enjoy posted:

larry parrish said he's a democratic socialist and therefore a liberal

Im happy to drop the point as well but the USA is very bad at using political labels like socialist correctly.

quote:

let's put aside the question of bernie sanders specifically. i think it is wrong to say that supporting parliamentary democracy is incompatible with socialism

Do you know the history of the Second International and the problems with reformist socialist governments post second world war? They're powerful evidence why reformist versus revolutionary socialism heavily favours the revolutionary.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

namesake posted:

Im happy to drop the point as well but the USA is very bad at using political labels like socialist correctly.


Do you know the history of the Second International and the problems with reformist socialist governments post second world war? They're powerful evidence why reformist versus revolutionary socialism heavily favours the revolutionary.

reformist socialism
- universal healthcare and education
- strong labour unions
- robust welfare system

revolutionary socialism
- gulags

gonna have to agree that the revolutionaries p clearly have the advantage here

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015



lol if you think that

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981


nope

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

how do you even get "more radically centrist", what does that look like

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Karl Barks posted:

how do you even get "more radically centrist", what does that look like

you wear a nicer suit and destroy more unions

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

Enjoy posted:

larry parrish said he's a democratic socialist and therefore a liberal

let's put aside the question of bernie sanders specifically. i think it is wrong to say that supporting parliamentary democracy is incompatible with socialism

Namesake said it already, but to be blunter about it people tend not to want to vote for giving up their private property and those with private property tend to have the system rigged in their favour

Also the idea that liberal parliamentary democracy is the ultimate form of human government is very "End of History" and is not a universally held belief

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Enjoy posted:

larry parrish said he's a democratic socialist and therefore a liberal

let's put aside the question of bernie sanders specifically. i think it is wrong to say that supporting parliamentary democracy is incompatible with socialism

I was using the ridiculously broad Marxist definition wherein if you support capitalism, you are a liberal


But I also think the American electoral system as a base concept is good and superior to Commonwealth parliaments everyone loves now so by a lot of people's reckoning I'm an idiot

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
U could argue that the Larry Parrish reforms to the electoral system to destroy political parties outside of caucasing within government and organising voters would in fact make america into a parliamentary system tho

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

*at the dsa meeting, yelling between sobs* we can't have a revolution without firing squads!

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
firing squads are good

guillotines are better

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009

namesake posted:

Do you know the history of the Second International and the problems with reformist socialist governments post second world war? They're powerful evidence why reformist versus revolutionary socialism heavily favours the revolutionary.

the usual complaint about the second international is that it abandoned internationalism once the great war started. this kind of abandoning of internationalism in response to national threats also happened under "actually existing" socialism, though. stalin had already begun moving towards russian nationalism before the second world war broke out (or the great patriotic war, in the parlance of russian nationalism). placing the international communist movement at the disposal of the russian state was the crux of "socialism in one country". in the 1930s, stalin's position was that national minorities within the soviet union needed to be assimilated (to stop their economic and cultural backwardsness being a drain or threat to the state). after the war, the socialist states engaged in exactly the kind of great power geopolitical manoeuvring as the capitalist states, such as the conflicts between yugoslavia and albania, russia and china, china and vietnam, and vietnam and cambodia.

Enjoy fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Jul 14, 2017

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

tfw bernie says the revolution will be non-violent but you've already picked out the revolver you're gonna use to execute your investment banker stepdad phil

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

Fallen Hamprince posted:

tfw bernie says the revolution will be non-violent but you've already picked out the revolver you're gonna use to execute your investment banker stepdad phil

where is the joke

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
bernie is a backsliding liberal and would rot in a gulag in any just society

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Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

GalacticAcid posted:

bernie is a backsliding liberal and would rot in a gulag in any just society

this but ironically

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