Are The Democrats A Communist Party?

[JohnEngelman]

I answered this question long ago when you asked it. If you had a memory longer than this morning you'd remember it.
There isn't a single thing Trump has done that resembles Fascism.

Trump's gatherings resemble Nazi rallies. Trump's supporters believe his lies, just as Hiler's supporters believed Hitler' lies.

 

[JohnEngelman]

I answered this question long ago when you asked it. If you had a memory longer than this morning you'd remember it.
There isn't a single thing Trump has done that resembles Fascism.

Answer it again. I have read The Communist Manifesto several times. I took a seminar given by the American Communist Party on Das Kapital. I already owned all three volumes of Das Kapital, printed in Moscow by Progress Publishers.

I know enough about the theories of Karl Marx to believe he had two valid insights, and that he was mistaken about everything else. I see no value at all at all in the writing and thinking of Lenin.

Even during the Great Depression and the War in Vietnam Marxism lacked popular support in the United States, and certainly in the Democrat Party. If the Democrat Party is inspired by the economic ideas of anyone it is those of John Maynard Keynes.

 

[Rightguide]

Answer it again. I have read The Communist Manifesto several times. I took a seminar given by the American Communist Party on Das Kapital. I already owned all three volumes of Das Kapital, printed in Moscow by Progress Publishers.

I know enough about the theories of Karl Marx to believe he had two valid insights, and that he was mistaken about everything else. I see no value at all at all in the writing and thinking of Lenin.

Even during the Great Depression and the War in Vietnam Marxism lacked popular support in the United States, and certainly in the Democrat Party. If the Democrat Party is inspired by the economic ideas of anyone it is those of John Maynard Keynes.

I see no value in the communist mindset whatsoever. It has no place in the United States of America or in any other place referred to as the free world.

 

[ll74]

Yes, for all practical purposes. They support and enact Marxist policies. They support unconstitutional totalitarian government controls on the population. They use weaponized government agencies to harass, prosecute, and imprison their political enemies. They demand conformity to their ideology and their forms of communication. Ideologically political propagandists indoctrinate our children from their first day in school. They hate individual liberty except their own. Children are taught to judge others on the basis of their race. They threaten or do worse to the noncompliant. All their foregoing fits within the communist mold.

Lol... histrionic boy chimes in

 

[Intrigued42]

By definition, the government owns businesses operating in a communist economy.

 

[Intrigued42]

That being said, the so-called socialist economy that the orange traitor refers to, as though the terms communism and socialism are interchangeable, was a term that was coined during Reconstruction when wealthy white landowners did not want to be taxed to develop roads, bridges, schools, etc. that would lift all boats. Semantics? Economic systems? BS? When the orange traitor can EVER elaborate on any of his sound-bite terms, well, that will be the day. He's clueless.

 

[JohnEngelman]

I see no value in the communist mindset whatsoever. It has no place in the United States of America or in any other place referred to as the free world.

What you call "freedom" I call "plutocratic power and privilege."

The two valid insights of Marx are first, that the national tendency of unregulated capitalism is to accumulate wealth and income at the top. Second, partly as a result of this, capitalism experiences increasingly serious economic downturns.

That is what did happen from 1847, when Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto to the Stock Market Crash of 1928.

President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal countered the first tendency with steeply progressive taxation, a minimum wage, laws to protect labor unions, and an expanded public sector of the economy. As a result, the United States developed the largest and most prosperous middle class in the world. Recessions became milder and rarer.

Beginning with the Reaan administration in the 1980's, Republicans began to reverse New Deal reforms. Taxes were cut for rich people and corporations. Labor unions got weaker. The minimum wage lost ground to inflation and the growing productivity of the U.S. economy.

As a result, wealth and income again accumulate at the top. Recessions are longer and deeper. They are followed with "jobless recoveries," when the gross domestic product (GDP) rises, but unemployment remains high. When this happens, the economic growth goes to employers, rather than employees.

 

[Intrigued42]

I see no value in the communist mindset whatsoever. It has no place in the United States of America or in any other place referred to as the free world.

Yet, the candidate that you seem to support has nothing but good things to say about Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un. He also seems to think that Xi Jingping has some pretty good things going for him. The reason is that he's clueless. He's always been clueless. He has bankrupted six companies, is worth almost nothing and is an aging, babbling idiot. Do you actually listen to him? Marxist? Socialist? Ask him what the terms mean. He'll babble on for an hour and not say anything because, as Rex Tillerson noted years ago, he is a f**king MORON!

 

[PaxNurgle]

The short answer is"Yes." Forget about the nominee no one voted for. Forget about the non-convention. Just listen to their proposed policies.

Did the Democrats advocate confiscating all private property? Nationalizing and taking over all private industry? Criminalizing private enterprize? Funny, I don't remember hearing about any of this.

Because they did not.

Silly thread anyway. No, the Democrats are not communist. Should be clear to anyone with a high school level education.

And no, Rightguide does not, and furthermore he never did, have any clue what communism is. (Though it's possible, even likely, that he grew up in Russia under Brezhnev, so maybe he only pretends not to.)

 

[Politruk]

Communists? The Dems are not even left-progressive social democrats.

If they were, Bernie sanders (who is no socialist, though he calls himself one) would have been their nominee at some point.

 

[Politruk]

The short answer is"Yes." Forget about the nominee no one voted for. Forget about the non-convention. Just listen to their proposed policies.

There's nothing Communist in their 2024 Platform.

 

[Politruk]

Are the Democrats a Communist Party?​

First: what is communism?​

Roger Simon
Aug 21, 2024

I am—to be clear—no particular fan of Republican rhetoric and propaganda, nor am I attracted to party line politics of any sort, but this convention seemed on the edge of an out-of-body “mass formation psychosis” experience à la Mattias Desmet, from both audience and speakers, that eerily approached the atmosphere of Leni Riefenstahl ’s documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally (not exactly communist but close enough in its celebration of group think).

It was the Republican National Convention, not the Democratic, that resembled Triumph of the Will this year. Likewise in 2020. And in 2016.

 

[TastySuckToy]

Are the Democrats a Communist Party?​

Yes.

 

[Bn2f]

Yes.

Cite.

 

[Politruk]

Yes.

You mean, "IF ONLY!"

 

[Politruk]

The Democrats are not even a LEFTIST party. No party can fairly be called "leftist" unless its political success would pose a threat to the power of the rich and the business interests. The Dems do NOT meet that test.

 

[Rightguide]

The Democrats are not even a LEFTIST party. No party can fairly be called "leftist" unless its political success would pose a threat to the power of the rich and the business interests. The Dems do NOT meet that test.

BS. Take a nap.

 

[Politruk]

BS. Take a nap.

Come on, you know the Dems don't meet that test. They are almost as wholly owned by Wall Street as the GOP. Nobody is wetting the boardroom carpet for fear Harris will win this, more's the pity.

 

[Politruk]

Trump's gatherings resemble Nazi rallies.

Very closely, in fact -- not all of Hitler's rallies involved uniforms.

 

[Politruk]

Yes, for all practical purposes. They support and enact Marxist policies.

What on Earth are you talking about?! Obamacare is nothing Marxist, and that's the most left-radical thing the Dems have done since FDR -- who never did anything Marxist.

 

[Politruk]

I am—to be clear—no particular fan of Republican rhetoric and propaganda, nor am I attracted to party line politics of any sort, but this convention seemed on the edge of an out-of-body “mass formation psychosis” experience à la Mattias Desmet, from both audience and speakers, that eerily approached the atmosphere of Leni Riefenstahl ’s documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally (not exactly communist but close enough in its celebration of group think).

That's some deeply dishonest shit right there. Since the 1960s, it is the GOP that has evolved into an ideological party. The Dems have remained a plain vanilla coalition of interest groups.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Just go to the source…Communist Party USA…

This answers the question. I’ve been around way too long to not take these imbeciles at their word.

 

[Politruk]

Just go to the source…Communist Party USA…

This answers the question. I’ve been around way too long to not take these imbeciles at their word.

Is the GOP a Nazi party because Nazis vote Republican?

Which they do. David Duke is a major Trumper.

 

[Politruk]

And why does Trump keep talking about "Marxists" and "Communists" as "the enemy within"?! Nobody is afraid of those any more!

 

[schism666]

Just go to the source…Communist Party USA…

This answers the question. I’ve been around way too long to not take these imbeciles at their word.

did you take trump's word when he said he would be a dictator and take your guns without due process?

derp.