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Socialism For Dummies... (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Oct 2015
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. Yeah....
that is a dummy's view of socialism, they can't imagine anyone leaving the ladder behind after using it.
dmr
(28,347 posts)2. That is just painful.
I still can't figure people out.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)3. Doesn't make any sense...
What's on the plateau above? The assumption must be that once one person gets there, he will then pull the ladder up making it unavailable to the person below. What happened to the third guy? Did the other two eliminate him from the equation?
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)4. Two men fighting over a ladder is not an accurate depiction of the capitalist/worker relationship.
This is better:
longship
(40,416 posts)5. Idiocy. Pure idiocy.
Not socialism. This straw man about socialism.
And I agree that this is a dummy's view of socialism.