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Marx used the words socialist and communist interchangably, although he did have a concept of "higher" socialism and the socialism that would be necessary in the world immeditaly after capitalism was crushed... it was Lenin who made the dinstinction between socialism and communism - and insofar as meaning I am a Leninist, I am not really - Lenin betrayed the spirit of revolution, and failed to understand that communism cannot exist without total and open democracy - he destroyed the revolution in trying to save it from counter revolutionies in my opinion.
As for me not being able to say this because I am not America - I disagree for two reasons -
1, the ideals of working class people are united across all capitalist borders, capitalist is most vulnerable in America because America is the most developed capitalsim
2, specifically, American's are people with no real nationality, certainly you can be a patriotic American, but there is no real blood and earth nationalism, or at least if there is it can only exist in the Indians - nearly all Americans families have settled there recently enough for them to be tied to the places they came from, America was not founded on democracy, or freedom, but on greed and rebellion and fanaticism... but it remains a blank canvas - you can talk about American's rejecting and repelling England, the truth is most Americans ARE English, just a few stages removed.
People may attach labels to themselves, I am a capitalist... but how many really believe in capitalism as a moral good? And how many just see it as the way the world is or the only way it can be because that is drummed into them all the time by the media, the school system, the state?
Many Americans say they hate communism, but they mean they hate Stalinism... any right mind person hates Stalinism, all communists hate Stalinism, and recognise Soviet Russia as a undemocratic, unsocialist, repressive and often brutal capitalist state.
Whatever label people have, I believe the ideals I talked about are the ideals of most common Americans, they are ideals that not any single party represents, they are ideals the press and schools and state do not represent, the whole organised body of American society stands radically to the Right of the American people and this balance must and will be addressed very soon... withing 20 years certainly. America lead the social capitalist revolution which conquered industrial capitalism, and so it has the position now to lead the communist revolution.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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