Jordan Peterson put it well: When somebody says "That wasn't real socialism. Real socialism has never been tried." They are really saying "If I were a communist dictator, I'd usher in the utopia. All those other communist dictators who created misery and death on a massive scale weren't true socialists. They didn't understand Marx like I do."
It's an extremely arrogant and ignorant attitude. Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and Castro all understood Marx. The next communist dictator will be the same way.
Jordan Peterson put it well: When somebody says "That wasn't real socialism. Real socialism has never been tried." They are really saying "If I were a communist dictator, I'd usher in the utopia. All those other communist dictators who created misery and death on a massive scale weren't true socialists. They didn't understand Marx like I do."
It's an extremely arrogant and ignorant attitude. Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and Castro all understood Marx. The next communist dictator will be the same way.
Yep!
Socialism is a forked system thought up by forked people.
Truth. Nailed it.
Forked it*
Bad analogy, you can stick it in the bottom hole and be just fine. That’s the ground wire. With socialism, every hole hurts you.
Let’s go get a tyrant to test it.