Thorn in the Pew<\/a><\/p>\nIt also says in Marx\u2019s Communist Manifesto that the first step towards building a communist society is to begin by building a socialist one. Yes, I\u2019ve read Marx. I majored in Poli-Sci in college. Yes, I went to college. No, I didn\u2019t graduate; I started having babies instead. I\u2019m 9 hours from that degree. I\u2019ll finish it some day. Who are you, my mother?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.\u201d \u2013 Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959 h\/t to Thorn in the Pew It also says in Marx\u2019s Communist Manifesto that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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