Evolution of Socialist Strategies to Save Socialism from Failure

[roo_ster]

The chart below is part of a blog post titled:
THE POLITICAL LEFT: UNITED IN HATE WITH AMERICA'S FOES

"A majority of Democrats have been slowly sliding toward a preference for tyanny over the last decade and pretty much subscribe to all the major ideological points of the far left anyway."



Do go and mash the link, as there is much there to chew on, more than I feel like pasting.


http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2009/04/poliitical-left-united-in-hate-with.html

[Standing Wolf]

The intellectuals of the left have been unable to abandon their totalitarian/collectivist ideology, even after communism and national socialism proved to be crushing failures in the 20th century.

"Intellectuals," hunh?

They doubtless want me to think they're intellectuals. I say they're nasty, small-minded bullies who deserve to have their tax dollars taken away.

[grampster]

What Standing Wolf said, adding smug and wilfully ignorant of history.

[longeyes]

The iron fist, holding the sherry glass in a velvet glove.

They are not "intellectuals."  Real intellectuals cannot be reality-averse.

[Perd Hapley]

The chart is incomplete.  I don't see Zardoz on there anywhere.

[roo_ster]

The chart is incomplete.  I don't see Zardoz on there anywhere.

Please, is not socialism itself horror enough?

Alternate reply:

The Zardoz screenplay was actually a long-lost manuscript of a Marx & Engles collaboration showing the true culmination of marxist ideology.