There's this weird idea lots of student commies have that Capitalism isn't the free trade of goods and service and leveraging of Capital (even as defined by Marx) but this weird corrupt state-supported corporatism that supports only the bourgeoise. The neighborhood mom and pop shop is somehow not capitalism. I don't know if that's where these people are coming from, but it's a common idea. So they can entertain such conflicting beliefs without feeling like hypocrites.
Same way they try to create a distinction between private and personal property that only exists in their minds.
It comes from friend/enemy, nothing more complicated than that.
If they like you you can be a multi-millionaire they like you provided you preach their values. And in fact that person "needs" their wealth to be able to do so effectively.
If you don't preach their values they'll hate you even if all you own is a single-wide and a 30 year-old pickup truck.
My favorite. If I have all the materials to build a house on a lot, that's my personal property and permissible. If I use the materials to build the house, suddenly it's private property and not permissible.
I was not talking about the third-way philosophy but the modern American term. I didn't make it up. Maybe "Crony Capitalism" is better? I don't think these pseudo-communists know what it means either. They appear to want both Anarchy and State control.
There's this weird idea lots of student commies have that Capitalism isn't the free trade of goods and service and leveraging of Capital (even as defined by Marx) but this weird corrupt state-supported corporatism that supports only the bourgeoise. The neighborhood mom and pop shop is somehow not capitalism. I don't know if that's where these people are coming from, but it's a common idea. So they can entertain such conflicting beliefs without feeling like hypocrites.
Same way they try to create a distinction between private and personal property that only exists in their minds.
It comes from friend/enemy, nothing more complicated than that.
If they like you you can be a multi-millionaire they like you provided you preach their values. And in fact that person "needs" their wealth to be able to do so effectively.
If you don't preach their values they'll hate you even if all you own is a single-wide and a 30 year-old pickup truck.
My favorite. If I have all the materials to build a house on a lot, that's my personal property and permissible. If I use the materials to build the house, suddenly it's private property and not permissible.
I do not think that word means what you think that it means.
I was not talking about the third-way philosophy but the modern American term. I didn't make it up. Maybe "Crony Capitalism" is better? I don't think these pseudo-communists know what it means either. They appear to want both Anarchy and State control.