Chap wrote:ajax18 wrote:I think your communism is a bigger threat to American freedom than Putin by far.
Dear Board Members:
What do you think Majax thinks this thing called 'communism' essentially consists of?
ajax18 wrote:Global warming that Gunnar seems to care so deeply about is more of an effort to establish global communism than it is to stop climate change.
I certainly trust Putin more than Gunnar, EAllusion, or Kevin Graham. It's not even close.
But what is this thing that Majax calls 'communism'? He doesn't say.
I suspect that it may be a reference to what are (in his view) the dangers to the US that he fears will follow from its participation in international multilateral agreements such as the the
Paris Agreement on action to combat climate change, and so on. But past that guess, I am in the dark.
"Communism" has a fairly clear historical meaning, which refers to two things:
1. A supposedly possible state of society based on common ownership, without class conflicts, where everybody contributes according to their abilities, and everybody gets in return what they need.
2. A political movement that aims to promote the ultimate establishment of such a society by the overthrow of existing structures of power, which are said to be controlled by the owners of capital and to function by exploiting those who work for wages.
(By the way: much of my own political life has been spent urging that (1) is not possible, and that hence (2) is misguided and likely to be more destructive than to promote human happiness.)
I don't see what Majax's usage has to do with that (to my mind) normal use of the word 'communism'.