Quote:Nationalism requires patriotism, I did not say they were the same. Patriotism does not require nationalism, but the reverse is certainly true.Agree, you just seemed to be making the case of patriots thinking their country is better. I like my country but I have respect for others. And yeah nationalists hate immigrants (in europe at least) but they propose some economic measures that could fix some crisis.
Don't defend with 'even ____ won't', because you'll find that somewhere one does. In this case, a good number more than six.
Quote:Only in branding. Modern socialism is a rebranded communism. They are different in the sense that Baptist and Methodist Christian churches are different: both are Christian churches, but each has a slightly different focus, and a few small things that an outsider wouldn't even notice are different between the two.Not really. Socialist parties in europe are pretty moderate, few members defend walking the communist path, many just favour a little more government intervention and social aid, Sweden style, but never abolishing capitalism. I don't know if the same happens in Russia though
The republican party of today is NOT the republican party of 30 years ago, let alone the party of its origin. So holds true with modern communism and modern socialism. Perhaps one day the two will be so different that they are so distinguishable as various Abrahamic religions... but that day is hundreds of years yet to come.
Today they remain moderate synonyms. I'm sure that the parties are ten types of different on "the big issues", but in reality, these "issues" are really very small, and the *focus* remains very similar. False choice, ahhh... 'democracy'.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
