Taverner (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 03:39 PM
Original message
What exactly is a "Hard Line Communist"?
The new DU3 rules state that Hard Line Communists will not be tolerated.
My question is: exactly what is the definition of a Hard Line Communist?
Can you cite works by Karl Marx?
Is advocating socialist principles OK?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2442485#2442891Looks like some of the DU commies are getting the jitters.
BTW, have you ever heard a communist admit that another communist was a communist? Part of their defense against history's evidence that communism and socialism are failed systems is to always counter with, "B-b-but, *insert despot here* wasn't a
true communist!" or "*Insert shithole country here* didn't have
real communism!"
Then they try to baffle you with bullshit by spouting off about all the 75,834 different permutations of communism like "council communism" and "Stalinism" and "Leninist-Bolshevikism" and "anarcho-syndicalism" and "mutualistic-masturbationism" and on and on, ad nauseum, in the hopes that your eyes will eventually glaze over enough that they can make their escape.
But anyway, they're upset because, most of the time, they don't know themselves what they are:
Ter (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 03:44 PM
Response to Original message
1. Stalin hard line enough for you?
I'm glad DU3 rules ban them. Freak Republic bans Nazis, so why not the reverse?
Hi
Taverner (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 03:46 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. I have no problem with banning Stalinists. I just want some clarity.
BTW, Stalin wasn't really a Communist. He was fascist, statist and closer to Mussolini than Lenin...
Like I said...
Fantastic Anarchist (925 posts) Wed Dec-07-11 04:56 PM
Response to Reply #1
23. Stalinists aren't communists.
Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 07:11 PM
Response to Reply #1
59. How many Stalinist invasions has DU survived so far?
Granted, I wasn't here from the beginning or anything, but how many Stalinist Communists have popped up here?
JoseGaspar (389 posts) Thu Dec-08-11 03:46 PM
Response to Reply #5
170. Stop bothering the nice stock brokers on their way to work...
Ye shall be segregated and penned and fed pepper spray food products...
...until you develop a nice, soft, caramel core.
No jaw-breakers allowed around here.
Besides, it's election time.
There is party politics to consider.
And, what about the family business?
I think it's trying to accuse $kimmer here of something, but is too cowardly to just come out and say it.
Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 04:37 PM
Response to Reply #8
10. Well, they have to get rid of the Red Riff Raff and non-conformists.
Puregonzo1188 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 04:32 PM
Response to Original message
9. Wait is DU having a red scare?
Seriously?
But this was the funny part to me:
Puregonzo1188 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 07:33 PM
Response to Original message
69. Apparently other fringe leftist that are not welcome are " terrorist-apologists,
America-haters, kooks, crackpots, LaRouchies, and the like."
Someone tell me this is a joke.
"Someone tell me this is a joke." Yeah, really. I mean, if you can't hate America, make excuses for terrorists, and just generally be batshit-crazy on DU, where
can you do those things?
white_wolf (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 07:46 PM
Response to Reply #69
71. I hope so.
When I saw terrorist-apologists and America-haters, I really felt like I was the twilight zone.
"Don't take my hate from me, it's all I have!"
WildNovember (522 posts) Thu Dec-08-11 04:48 AM
Response to Reply #69
111. Is that a direct quotation from the new rules?
TBF (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-08-11 07:58 AM
Response to Reply #111
122. Yes it is from the "terms of service" posted on the home page of DU3 -
"Don't be a wingnut (right-wing or extreme-fringe).
Democratic Underground is an online community for politically liberal people who understand the importance of working within the system to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans to all levels of political office. Teabaggers, Neo-cons, Dittoheads, Paulites, Freepers, Birthers, and right-wingers in general are not welcome here. Neither are certain extreme-fringe left-wingers, including advocates of violent political/social change, hard-line communists, terrorist-apologists, America-haters, kooks, crackpots, LaRouchies, and the like."
Since most DUmmies are fringe nutjobs, they're all wringing their hands right now.