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Originally Posted by olhamada
This push to grow government to moderate and oversee the class struggle, the push to increase the government's hold on more and more of our lives, the push to increase and progressively tax businesses and individuals to bring this about, the push to equalize the classes by being "fair and balanced", etc... - is a slide away from capitalism towards Marxism/Leninism/Communism.
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IMO, your own analysis disproves your central thesis.
The current administration's efforts to propagate middle class (bourgeoisie) interests and values is more indicative of an attempt to subvert the working classes from their revolutionary mission.
Moreover, IMO you are neglecting the role violence plays in Marxist-Leninist ideology. To Marx, "class warfare" was not a rhetorical flourish but a necessary component of revolutionary change.
Finally, before someone argues that today's "progressive" is yesterday's socialist, and therefore a communist, I would point out that while communist ideology allows for temporary alliances of convenience with leftist political parties, it points out that such arrangements must ultimately serve the objectives of communism, and, that at all times.
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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.*
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My $0.02.
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