Re:My libertarian vacation nightmare: How Ayn Rand, Ron Paul...
by dreamweapon on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @11:09AM
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Again, it sounds like you're basically unaware of the distinction Western European-style democratic socialism, and communism (Marxist or otherwise). Yes there's some overlap, but the differences are greater than the overlap, and are really quite fundamental.
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com·mu·nism ˈkämyəˌnizəm
noun
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
There's not technically any requirement that communist countries be dictatorships, even though they normally are. A country with outright Marxist union leaders who could topple actual governments - sounds pretty close to me.
I don't know what your second part has to do with anything. We are discussing economics, not Thatcher's foreign policy. The UK has always sold weapons to tyrants.