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Xolodno

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6. A friend of mine once made an anti socialist comment on facebook.

Reply to Charmin One (Original post)

Sun Jul 20, 2025, 10:39 PM

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So I proceeded to quote Adam Smith (he forgot I was an econ guy).

He commented and said it sounded "socialist". I responded by saying "the father of capitalism in your words a socialist?!" Yeah, that shut him fairly fast.

Another one I like to use, when someone states its Marxist. My response "Well, what is Marxism? And mind you, I studied economics". They commonly, state various lines in which I say "nope, he didn't say that". Until the point they ask "well, what is it then?". Which I reply, he never left a blue print of what socialism was, only a philosophy as he was also a philosopher. So nobody knows.

Only thing we have is Leninism and Maoism. Plus variations of it. And they are communist systems, not socialist and there is a difference.

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