Any Communist prog fans out there?

Why do you think I have no empathy? Why do you think I'm spoiled? Why do you think I'm little? Why do you think I'm rich? Why do you think I'm a kid?

Please, Teo, don't buy into their narrative that you have to be poor to have feelings.

OK Theodore, tell me about your impoverished "third world" upbringing.
You know how to make a pair of sandals out of discarded tires, know how to get by on a bowl of rice a day? It must have been tough.

Edited by js (Easy Money) - December 14 2012 at 19:32

js (Easy Money) wrote: The T wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: The T wrote: Capitalism has raised millions out of poverty and has improved the standards of living of millions. As long as you are born into the right family...Enjoy your spoiled little rich kid life T. Sad person full of hate and ignorance you are. I come from a third world country and make less than 25000 a year yes I'm so rich. You have no idea about my background yet you are the first to make prejudgements about people. Poor prejudiced man. You deserve pity. "Third world country" eh, your from Ecuador, so is my brother-in-law, born and raised middle class, so your negative stereotypes about Ecuador won't fly.

I have seen REAL poverty. Anyway, be doesn't now anything about me yet he thinks I'm rich because I have different opinions to him.

I lived 24 years in Ecuador. I, not a relative of a relative, so you teaching me about my country or accusing me of stereotyping (which I even wasn't doing anyway) won't fly.

Slartibartfast wrote: The T wrote: Capitalism has raised millions out of poverty and has improved the standards of living of millions. As long as you are born into the right family...Enjoy your spoiled little rich kid life T.

Sad person full of hate and ignorance you are. I come from a third world country and make less than 25000 a year yes I'm so rich. You have no idea about my background yet you are the first to make prejudgements about people. Poor prejudiced man. You deserve pity.

Edited by The T - December 14 2012 at 14:25

The T wrote: Capitalism has raised millions out of poverty and has improved the standards of living of millions.

As long as you are born into the right family...
Enjoy your spoiled little rich kid life T.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 14 2012 at 14:14

Capitalism has raised millions out of poverty and has improved the standards of living of millions.

My heart’s with communism; my brain is not. It’s a sad fact that communism has never worked for the benefit of the people. The revolution devours its children, and when they are (b)eaten, it starts to hunt the grandchildren.

Oh, no, not that sh*t again.

Please, guys, I come from another forum where relations had been tense for a few days tbecause of a forumite taking the defense of a historian who seems to be very fond of Stalin and the USSR... And I would enjoy not to have to witness another senseless debate of this type.

I'm baffled to see that some people interested in the theories of Marx and his followers (faithful disciples or skeptic critics) always feel the need to remember that the USSR was part of the Allies and enemy of the Third Reich.
Okay, Stalingrad was the turning point of WWII, okay, we got that part for a loooong time. And USSR was a totalitarian system, we also got that part, thanks.

But, now, could we stop masturbating over casualties, death tolls and which regime or economical system had called more people?
For what I remember, it seems to me that the original poster just wanted to know if some prog fans happened to be communist sympathizers, not if some prog fans had an erection in front of the uniforms of the Red Army!
Can't people read Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Simone Weil or Gramsci without feeling the urge to kiss a picture of Trotsky, Lenin or Mao Zedong???

Gosh, I feel like center extremist.