Why do rightists keep posting this quote on discussions of socialism?

He is right faggot. Socialism and communism are the same thing.

I don't think they are. I was just asking why they think we'd care if it was.

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Americans are literally so dumb that they think that socialism is when the government does things and communism is the USSR (aka the guys who hacked the election)

This would be a great opportunity for a right wing cringe thread

Read it faggots. Just fucking read for once in your pathetic useless life.

Politically, the distinction between the first, or lower, and the higher phase of communism will in time, probably, be tremendous. But it would be ridiculous to recognize this distinction now, under capitalism, and only individual anarchists, perhaps, could invest it with primary importance (if there still are people among the anarchists who have learned nothing from the “Plekhanov” conversion of the Kropotkins, of Grave, Corneliseen, and other “stars” of anarchism into social- chauvinists or "anarcho-trenchists", as Ghe, one of the few anarchists who have still preserved a sense of humor and a conscience, has put it).

But the scientific distinction between socialism and communism is clear. What is usually called socialism was termed by Marx the “first”, or lower, phase of communist society. Insofar as the means of production becomes common property, the word “communism” is also applicable here, providing we do not forget that this is not complete communism. The great significance of Marx's explanations is that here, too, he consistently applies materialist dialectics, the theory of development, and regards communism as something which develops out of capitalism. Instead of scholastically invented, “concocted” definitions and fruitless disputes over words (What is socialism? What is communism?), Marx gives an analysis of what might be called the stages of the economic maturity of communism.
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm

Where's EMS of Kerala?

it's always a strange feel when right wingers say something they think is terrible but it's actually good

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- you

it is joke tovarisch.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite–Maoist_insurgency
i think its these guys, i maybe wrong

If according to Lenin:
then we can deduce that:

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To be perfectly honest here, many Bernie supporters themselves believe and claim socialism and communism are somehow distinct — mostly by substituting the meaning of socialism with that of social democracy. So when rightists realized through a few minutes' worth of Wikipedia reading that (actual) socialism and communism were in fact intrinsically related, they jumped on the occasion for a nice "gotcha" quote.

Marx never made the distinction, it was introduced by Lenin, faggot.

Next level: quoting the Communist Manifesto on the subject of taxes as if they were uncovering some great conspiracy. Sadly, I've seen succdems having a meltdown when faced with this.

Man, I can't possibly understand the processes behind a reactionary's thoughts any more than I can study a shorted electrical circuit or read a book composed of random letters strung together. Their very cognitive capacities are broken to begin with. The left-right dichotomy was one of mankind's worst mistakes.

People who say things like this have never felt poverty in their lives, and do not know the true nature of labour. Literally bourgeois.

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it's all there in the books friend

Jesus christ. Everytime I read a YouTube comment on a video pertaining to something even mildly leftist my desire to go on a shooting spree intensifies a thousand fold.

A lot of people that comment on youtube are just kids who repeat whatever they see in videos.

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this but unironically

Well I mean Marx uses them interchangeably but there is a clear distinction between the higher and lower stages, a distinction that is expressed in the modern day as the distinction between socialism and communism. So all tankies are really guilty of is altering the terminology, at least in this instance. I mean, they are pants on head retarded in all kinds of other areas.

You know, we could do with an Alunya version of that pic.

The lower stage is still communism.

It has nothing to with the Dictatorship of the proletariat, which is part of the revolutionary period and where classes and capitalism still exist.

Honestly I'm more glad someone is referring to it as "postmodernism" instead of the normalfag nazi term "cultural marxism"

Hilarious when people start playing the "define this" game. Really highlights the lack of an argument.

Here.

Wow, I'm tempted to say this is trolling, but realistically at few thousand if not millions believe this. I'm a bit butt blasted.

It literally isn't. Marx was ridiculously vague about how Socialist society was meant to be organised.

Because Bernie calls himself a socialist?

The only one at fault here is Bernie for playing right into with the socialism = big government shit even though he's just a succdem (and not a demsucc as he claims).