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Investopedia· 2025-11-21 16:00
Communism and socialism are political and economic systems that are historically related but often confused with each other. Here’s how they compare. https://t.co/qxgn81WMoc ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-18 05:49
RT Whatifalthist (@whatifalthist)One of the horrifying things I realized was Socialism was basically voting public’s begging to have serfdom again. This was something that was widely said during the early USSR, which was called “the second serfdom” by Russian peasants. In both there’s no private property, everything is collective and under total ownership by a repressive state. Russia was unusually bad as serfdom went, with High Medieval Western Europe being way better than either.What the Socialist says wh ...
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Elon Musk· 2025-11-17 23:12
Political Ideologies - Socialism is likened to a form of serfdom where the public begs for it, drawing parallels to the early USSR [1] - Socialist systems are criticized for leading to a lack of individual choice, property, and competition, ultimately resulting in a state-enforced work environment similar to slavery [2] - Feudal lords are portrayed as potentially more benevolent than socialist states due to the impersonal nature of the latter [3] Historical Comparisons - Early USSR was referred to as "the second serfdom" by Russian peasants due to the absence of private property and total state ownership [1] - Serfdom in Russia is considered worse than in High Medieval Western Europe [1]
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 05:22
RT Brad Lemley (@BradCLemley)Communism mistakes what works in a family for what will work in a nation. Naval Ravikant: “With my family, I’m a communist. With close friends, a socialist. At the state level of politics, a Democrat. At higher levels, a Republican. And at the federal level, I’m a Libertarian.” ...
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BBC News (World)· 2025-11-17 01:02
Communist and far-right candidates head to Chile presidential run-off https://t.co/n2INoeZrFD ...
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Balaji· 2025-11-16 10:00
They built a monument to Stolypin after his death in 1911.Then the communists tore it down, once they gained power.And then today’s Russian government put a monument back up again in 2012, after the communists lost power.But that cycle took one hundred years. https://t.co/YTZT8H2crK ...
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Balaji· 2025-11-16 09:54
There’s an alternate history where Russia didn’t go communist.In 1911, a man named Pyotr Stolypin was Prime Minister of Russia. Staunchly anti-war and traditionalist, he was nevertheless also an energetic reformer. He suppressed violent revolutionaries, but gave peasants their own land to farm. He was the path to a peaceful capitalist reformation in Russia. Lenin hated him, and called him the hangman-in-chief.Then he was assassinated. Historians still debate whether it was a conspiracy or a lone gunman. But ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-11 18:19
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The populist right takes for granted only one thing -- that communism was a huge threat to our Christian and otherwise conservative values -- and that Reagan beat them. Other than that, their critique of Reagan and the Bushes and those era's conservatives are spot on.Reagan-era conservatives worked with the Democrats to give us the immigrant flood and the elevation of Wall Street via the cheapening of labor -- resulting in the poverty of Americans today who want to start families, ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-11 07:00
RT Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec)ANTI-COMMUNISM WEEK, 2025"This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies." - @POTUShttps://t.co/P1snEzu8be ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-09 21:57
Historical Event - 36 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, signifying the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the defeat of communism in Eastern Europe [1]