The Twitter-length answer is that: Communism (International Socialism) is a subset of Socialism. What is hilarious every trip of the train is how the Socialists (National, International, Scientific, Democratic) all pipe up that anybody who notices this needs more education.
No, little Ninja, we do not need any more education. We usually arrive at this realization by examining the facts in spite of the propaganda from the Western Education Industry.
They might be different in rhetoric, but in practice they are the same.
Obama has some catching up to do if he is going to be a hero of the Left.
PS. @Truseattleite, if Socialism is somehow divorced from Communism and you #Occupy urchins truly believe that you are something different from Communists, you might want to direct your education advice at the folks making your posters:
By-the-by, that "power fist" goes back to the 1860s or earlier. The Democrats opposing Lincoln used it in their posters.
“At that point we were in a position where we had to deploy gas in order to stop the crowd and people from pelting us with bottles and rocks,” the Oakland Interim Chief of Police told reporters following scrutiny of the police response to the protesters in Oakland.
“Did you see people throwing bottles and rocks at the police before they used those tactics?” O’Donnell asked a protester.
“Umm, yeah. People were doing that,” the protester told the MSNBC host.
The Cosmotarians at Reason magazine even said the police were the ones doing the rioting:
One can only guess that Reason's inclusion of the Slate information is the way they share an affinity with the 'oppressed' Viet Cong 'victims' of tear gas, but I digress.
Occupy Oakland
This tactic employed by O'Donnell, lying about who initiated violence, was perfected in the American media during the 1960s by Soviet backed International Socialists, like David Horowitz. Horowitz has spoken often, and in detail, abut the tactics he and his friends used through the Cold War to help the Soviets on every front and try to take down the United States.
The same thing is happening now, with MSNBC taking up the torch of Socialism against anybody in striking distance.
