Obama is Not a Socialist, I am

After hearing this same line over and over again about how Obama is a "Socialist" or "Communist" or (somehow) "A Nazi" from Glenn Beck and his obedient worshipers, I finally had had enough and made this video to set the record straight.

Now I'll admit this isn't a perfect analysis and I forgot a lot of points. For instance this doesn't mean I'm against expanded public programs like universal higher education and Single-Payer healthcare as reforms to fight for in the short term, it just means that they're not Socialism. Also the point that part of the fundamental definitions of Socialism is that it is a classless society. But I tried my best. Also sorry about my lisp.

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[nonoetseb]

FINALLY someone in the US that actually knows what Socialism/Communism/Marxism is!!!!! Good job comrade, i'm a member of the SWP UK, cheers from London!

[racecar2323]

@nonoetseb @nonoetseb Cheers back from the International Socialist Organization in North Carolina. Yup, we're organizing the south, we're putting the "red" back into red state

[mojorhythm]

Are you libertarian socialist or state socialist?

[racecar2323]

@mojorhythm Neither or both, I guess you'd say. I don't particularly like that dichotomy or the definitions it embodies. I'm a international socialist in that I believe in socialism from below where it's the grassroots, organic democratic organizations of the working class, built and controlled by the working class themselves that fights back and does away with the capitalist state and economy. That this form of direct democratic rule can be characterized as a type of "state" but not like others

[mojorhythm]

@racecar2323 So I would be correct in saying you favor Bakunin over Marx?

[racecar2323]

@mojorhythm No. Marx over Bakunin. I've always found Bakunin rather elitist

[nojokemisanthrope]

>FDR

>Greatest friend that capitalism ever had

I...I...I think I just had a brain aneurysm

[Deltrix4762]

@Hollywood4Cain government intervention in economic aspects of people's lives. I'm a strong socialist and I believe ALL drugs, gay marriage, abortion, etc. to be legal.