What really frosts my weenie is that many on the Republican/Republican Entertainment Complex side do not even realize that "socialism" and "communism" are not the same thing. For decades, socialists and communists loathed each other.

Socialism--A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Communism--A political and economic ideology advocating for a classless system in which the means of production are owned communally and private property is nonexistent or severely curtailed.

Socialism does not particularly care about social class (Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are all monarchies and all of them have some REALLY wealthy people). Communism DOES care about social class and calls class evil (Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution anyone?). Socialism is not terribly interested in societal control, while communism *is* interested (that is its Leninism showing...and for the record, Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT on Taiwan were a Leninist party that we had ZERO qualms about from 1949-1979...and interesting fun fact, the KMT was aligned with the Soviet Communist Party for quite a few years before Mao and the CCP built up steam). Not defending Communism, but many of the excesses of the Warsaw Pact nations stemmed more from their Leninism than their Communism. Lenin himself basically acknowledged that system does not work when he drew up the New Economic Policy in the early 1920s. That said, he had a major ****** for social control, and that is what Communism really morphed into.

Anyone taking any sort of political philosophy instruction from Fox Channel/Mark Levin, et al is a certified moron.