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CuomoisaMassMurderer 4 points ago +4 / -0

His list of inventions is staggering. His autobiography should be required reading!

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FluffiPuff 2 points ago +2 / -0

He's a fascinating man!

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PeaceThroughStrength 4 points ago +4 / -0

You are a liar and glowie, and you've been fucking at this all day.

Show the whole thing

"All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it".

Ben Frank wanted publicly regulated laws not the abolishment of private property.

On other threads you keep trying to incite pedes to violence.

Go back to your ActBlue masters and tell Soros you have failed.

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FluffiPuff 3 points ago +3 / -0

*Proto-socialist

In otherwords, a classic liberal - we actually used to have such things.

FULL DISCLOSURE: My Mother was one

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DrunkSocratic 2 points ago +2 / -0

Depends on the definition of left-wing.

The historical, central European conception came from seating arrangements around the time of the French revolution and centered around the role of government. Left wing advocated for limited, small government. Right wing were the monarchists who believed in strong government.

The English and American conception came from a series of debates between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke and centered around the nature of social change. Paine (Left) argued society was arbitrary and could be destroyed and remade from scratch. Burke (Right) believed (correctly it turns out) that society and institutions evolve naturally over generations of trial and error such that making drastic social changes will only create chaos and destruction.

Nazis and Fascists were right wing in Europe because they were totalitarian - government controls literally everything - but they both promoted a new culture and a "new man" that could be created by forcibly changing society. They would be Left wing by American standards.

Ben Franklin was left wing by the historical European standards by wanting small government, but I don't know his view on social change so I'm not sure how he'd rate by English/American standards.

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PeaceThroughStrength 1 point ago +2 / -1

iF yOu'Re aNtI-mOnArChy, yOu'Re lEfT-wInG!

Dumbest thing I've seen today

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PeaceThroughStrength 1 point ago +2 / -1

No it isn't. Just because some things have similar traits do not presuppose them to be the same thing.

Your false equivalence is palpable.

Go back to Reddit you cuck

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