(And will it matter whether we\u2019re talking about the Dems\u2019\nprimary or the Presidential election?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s easy to frown and say, \u201cSpare me your exaggeration!\nSocialism isn\u2019t communism!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe goal of socialism is communism.\u201d This quote is attributed to Vladimir Lenin,\nwho knew something about both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From history.com:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMarxists often refer to socialism as the first, necessary phase on the way from capitalism to communism. Marx and Engels themselves didn\u2019t consistently or clearly differentiate communism from socialism, which helped ensure lasting confusion between the two terms.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Read more at https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/socialism-communism-differences .<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing they seem to have in common\nis a policy of \u201cguns for our <\/em>party\nmembers only.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gonna be a couple of interesting races\nin any case\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (And will it matter whether we\u2019re talking about the Dems\u2019 primary or the Presidential election? It\u2019s easy to frown and say, \u201cSpare me your exaggeration! Socialism isn\u2019t communism!\u201d Well\u2026 \u201cThe goal of socialism is communism.\u201d This quote is attributed to Vladimir Lenin, who knew something about both. From history.com: \u201cMarxists often refer to socialism as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6176,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}