Reply #53: Reductio ad Absurdum [View All]

[JHB]

reductio ad absurdum: Latin for "reduction to the absurd"

You do it here, and those say what you claim they say do it too. But that's the language the Right has reduced the discussion to. Don't give in to it. When they call you "socialist", shoot back: "damn stright! I'm an Eisnenhower Socialist" (you don't even have to believe that, but just saying it helps to bust up their over-simplistic framework).


There's more than one kind of capitalism (as you note). Just because (RW-defined) capitalism (i.e., ReaganBushonomics) is an abject failure doesn't mean we want Stalin and Mao. It just means (as I've said in my sig for years) we want the kind of economy that defeated Communism as it was in those nations, not the kind that spawned it.