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Posted: 11/1/2009 9:56:03 PM EDT
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Totalitarianism is when some dictator owns the means to production.
Democratic socialism is when the author is the dictator. |
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Posted: 11/1/2009 9:59:29 PM EDT
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The author would like to convince EVERYBODY, that way it's not totalitarianism. But since you can't convince everybody democratic socialism that isn't totalitarian is impossible.
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Posted: 11/1/2009 10:28:35 PM EDT
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"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." Orwell, IIRC. It makes perfect sense, unless you insist that all socialist states eventually slide to totalitarianism. |
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Posted: 11/1/2009 10:49:16 PM EDT
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"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." Orwell, IIRC. It makes perfect sense, unless you insist that all socialist states eventually slide to totalitarianism. They don't? 
And you can't have even democratic socialism without a large amount of .gov control. |
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