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How is neoconservatism not suffering from the same sickness as communism?
1) You believe in the inequality of cultures, but not the differences in them.
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Since when? Neo-cons do not believe that other democracies should be enslaved. We want to give people options....communists want to take options away.
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2) You believe that there is a formula to manipulate all cultures into a single perfect archetype.
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How so? No neo-con will say we are perfect...just better than everything else. The two terms are not the same thing.
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3) The way to do it is by force and expansion from the top down.
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Despots rarely if ever surrender their power volunarily.
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So you have differences on the economic ideals. So what?
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The differences are not just economic.
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The totalitarianism in the name of equality is still there.
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If we are giving the masses a choice, it is not totalitarianism by definition.
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No Sadistic Savior, youre thinking of Stalinism with the whole totalitarianism/authoritarianism. I was thinking more along the lines of Democratic Socialism.
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That isnt what communists propose though. So how can you call yourself a communist?
Communists invariably want limits put on what the masses can do. They justify this by saying that the masses will be "manipulated" into surrendering their power otherwise.
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The capitalist system restricts far more freedoms than this system would. It is undeniable that a rich person has more options avaliable to them than a poor person, therefore they have more freedom, so where is the freedom for the poor?
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In a Capitalist democracy, the poor have exact the same voice as the rich...with one difference. By definition, there will always be
more poor than rich. So the poor will ALWAYS have more political power in a democracy, because there are more of them. More votes.
So Capitalists only have as much power as the poor allow.
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And please do not try and argue that selfishness is a freedom, because nearly all people agree that your freedom ends when it affects that of another person and selfishness certainly does restrict the freedom of another person.
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If nearly all people agree, then what are you afraid of? Why not let them keep the options they have now?