You "know I call myself a Communist"?

I actually did say that, tongue in cheek, in a post a couple of years ago, something like , "So I guess that makes me a communist ;-)" or something like that.

I don't usually label myself, but I do believe a good deal of what I have read from Marx and Engells. The western connotation of the word "communist" is, of course, corrupted to the point that I don't think even Marx would recognize what it means. You can call me a Marxist, I guess - if you must call me something. But that is not what I am. Socialist might be more appropriate, but as Ashton has pointed out, these labels are meaningless. Perhaps the best label is "anti-Corporatist". My problem with Capitalism is that it nurtures the worst in all of us. "I got mine - you go get yours" is the pervasive, I'd argue hostile, emotion that pervades, at the least US, capitalist thought. If there were an honest religious tenet that was expressed by US capitalists, it would read something (exactly?) like this: "Do unto others before they do unto you."

Post #184,777 by mmoffitt 11/22/04 11:33:20 AM Reply	You "know I call myself a Communist"? How? bcnu, Mikem Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer. (Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
Post #184,785 by Arkadiy 11/22/04 11:55:33 AM Reply	I seem to remeber reading that in your posts... If I am mistaken, please accept my apologies. What do you call yourself? -- This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet. -- [link\|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx\|The] Daily WTF
Post #184,792 by mmoffitt 11/22/04 12:16:32 PM Reply	Confused. :-) I actually did say that, tongue in cheek, in a post a couple of years ago, something like , "So I guess that makes me a communist ;-)" or something like that. I don't usually label myself, but I do believe a good deal of what I have read from Marx and Engells. The western connotation of the word "communist" is, of course, corrupted to the point that I don't think even Marx would recognize what it means. You can call me a Marxist, I guess - if you must call me something. But that is not what I am. Socialist might be more appropriate, but as Ashton has pointed out, these labels are meaningless. Perhaps the best label is "anti-Corporatist". My problem with Capitalism is that it nurtures the worst in all of us. "I got mine - you go get yours" is the pervasive, I'd argue hostile, emotion that pervades, at the least US, capitalist thought. If there were an honest religious tenet that was expressed by US capitalists, it would read something (exactly?) like this: "Do unto others before they do unto you." bcnu, Mikem Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer. (Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
Post #185,003 by daemon 11/25/04 12:09:04 AM Reply	he is an OP communist :-) like the rest of us it works well for Other People, just dont apply those rules to me :-). Just Like Beep is an OP capitalist regards, daemon that way too many Iraqis conceived of free society as little more than a mosh pit with grenades. ANDISHEH NOURAEE clearwater highschool marching band [link\|http://www.chstornadoband.org/\|http://www.chstornadoband.org/]
Post #184,786 by broomberg 11/22/04 11:55:59 AM Reply	Uh, here [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=133291\|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=133291] Of course, you were never a really good one, but you seemed to try.
Post #184,790 by mmoffitt 11/22/04 12:07:30 PM Reply	I'd be a communist, but I'm not good enough. Close.... bcnu, Mikem Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer. (Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
Post #184,791 by Arkadiy 11/22/04 12:15:30 PM Reply	A good communits is a dead communist Almost serious: only a corpse can possess the required amount of self-denial and altruism. -- This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet. -- [link\|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx\|The] Daily WTF
Post #184,794 by mmoffitt 11/22/04 12:19:39 PM Reply	That sounds like what I heard in church as a tot. There's the disconnect for me with religion. All that born out of sin, I'm unworthy, pray for forgivenss for ... living crap. I have too much faith in man to be party to any organized religion. Left to his own uncorrupted devices, I believe we are, unless mentally ill, by our nature an gregarious, altruistic species on the whole. bcnu, Mikem Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer. (Just trying to be accepted in the New America)

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