What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[FireIceTalon]

ROFL. Impossible, since communism and totalitarianism cannot fundamentally co-exist.

Yeah, crazy. It could never happen.

So then... Stalin was chosen by the CC as the successor to Lenin. Why is it that everywhere communism is attempted eventually results in mass executions and deprivation? I'm just having a little trouble grasping how you can believe that something is great in theory, but then so disastrous in execution. So, yeah, let's just not look at all those places where it's been attempted.

But by equating money to free speech, is essentially giving such individuals or parties TWO votes.

Nope. What the SCOTUS ruled on was speech, and only speech. The ruling was, "A provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act prohibiting unions, corporations and not-for-profit organizations from broadcasting electioneering communications within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary election violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."

Should Joe McGinniss be allowed to write, and make money from a book about Sarah Palin? Should Penguin be allowed to sell it, and make money from it? Or, is it some fuzzy and quasi-legalistic wrangling since she hadn't quite declared if she was going to run or not. Do political opponents just need to make sure they get their speech in before the muzzling window drops? What he did was to exercise his freedom of speech, and specifically exactly the same thing that Citizen's United did, only they did it as a movie about Hillary Clinton. Let's say a political movie is a hit, and when the 30/60 day window arrives then all the theaters must pull it. Or, all the book stores need to shelve their best seller. It seems clear to me that it impinges on free speech. Money is just the means by which a newspaper is printed.

Communism has never been truly attempted by any state yet. You are conflating Stalin's own selfish interests with what communism seeks to achieve, which are two fundamentally different things. Stalin couldnt have cared less about making a truly equal and democratic society, and in fact, murdered many of his own generals and peers that were in the Revolution when he came to power. If there is no democratic political system, then communism CANNOT be implemented, period. Democracy is essential to Communism's existence in the same way a fish needs water. Why do you think Rosa Luxemburg and the Spartacus Movement rejected the October Revolution of 1917? Because it was a party revolution, which Luxemburg knew would lead to a dictatorship and undermine the very goal of what communism seeks to achieve. It had to come from the bottom up, not the top down, it was to be not a party revolution, but a workers revolution. In other words, the cure was equally as bad as the disease in this situation. Had the revolution been a workers movement, the result may have very well been different. And of course, the other problem was the geopolitics of it. A revolution in a agricultural state like 1917 Russia is a backwards revolution, Marx himself even stated it must take place on a global level starting in the most capitalist state, which at the time, would have either been Germany, Great Britain or the US. But certainly not Russia or China. In general, people throw words like communism, socialism, fascism, democracy and such around, without knowing what these words truly mean or what objectives they seek. Thus, they become pejoratives and lose their meaning. Like the anti-Obama nut jobs who call him a Fascist-Communist (which is also impossible)....Truth be told, the US was more socialist than the Soviet Union ever was, especially during the Cold War. Taking the principles of what defines an ideology or system, communism, has in fact, been responsible for exactly ZERO deaths, since we have never had a communist system before. Totalitarinism and Capitalism (which are different systems but both go very well together, democracy and capitalism on the other hand, are incompatible) in contrast, the list is almost endless