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Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?
RE: Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?
(September 29, 2012 at 1:34 am)cratehorus Wrote: In capitalism, the same thing happens, if not more so, people who work 90 hours a week live in poverty, while the children of the wealthiest in society, never lift a finger, their whole life.
It isn't the same thing, for a couple of reasons:

1) In capitalism, only the wealthy can afford to sit on their ass; in communism, everyone can, since the government will pay to keep them alive.

2) The children of the wealthy cannot live like that forever; nobody can. If you do not have an income, and are living off a large sum of money, you will eventually run out of money, especially if you have kids, and they have kids, etc, and you all live off the same supply of money. In communism, one could theoretically live off the state and have their children and grandchildren live off the state for as long as the state is around.

Quote:There can never, be something, such as a "communist nation", it can never exist, therefore you will never find an example of one
Yes, there can. A nation is simply a large group of people all inhabiting the same area. A communist nation would be a large group of people, all inhabiting the same area, and all living in a communist society. I'd agree that a "communist state" (though some exist) isn't a true form of communism, but to say that there can be no communist nation is not true. A "nation" is not a political term; it's more of a human-geographic term.

In any case, how do you think you can ever convince me of communism if you admit that it can never exist? Seems a bit pointless to me.
Quote:North Korea has no oil, since it is not even, just allowed to trade for oil, it does NOT have total control over it's economy.
The government does the trading, thus the government does have total control over its economy.
Quote:By, your logic............ the most dangerous person in the world is a freely-elected public official
Eh???
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RE: Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together? - by Tiberius - September 29, 2012 at 6:54 pm

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