Can anyone recommend a good biography of Vladimir Lenin?

[Gandalf]

yes but Miles you are stealing my money to give to welfare dodgers and the poor

There are bigger active thieves in society than the poor. It's too easy to blame those that can't find work, those that bankrupt the entire system deserve a little more of the blame.

It's beyond me how anybody could ever accuse Obama of being a socialist. How warped has the word become?

As it has been said countless times, the left lost the battle of ideas in America a long long time ago. A socialist model as you stated is benign. However, most peoples in the US see it as something demonic leading to a pagan form of hardcore communism or something and when I hear most americans yelling against socialism, I understand how the propaganda worked well and how it did give a huge twist of sense to the real definition of socialism. For example, we have a social healthcare in Canada, we pay nothing and we can all be treated for free at the Hospital, no matter how rich or poor you are. The only thing we pay is a medical insurance of 50$ per years to cover almost any medicine you might have to take in the meantime, which cover most of the medicine from 100% to 80% of the global costs. I don't see how it is a bad thing and god knows that even if I am not rich, I am far from being part of those struggling to survive.

You don't need to tell me all this. I'm on your side, I know the facts.

[Nameless]

There are bigger active thieves in society than the poor. It's too easy to blame those that can't find work, those that bankrupt the entire system deserve a little more of the blame.

It's beyond me how anybody could ever accuse Obama of being a socialist. How warped has the word become?

As it has been said countless times, the left lost the battle of ideas in America a long long time ago. A socialist model as you stated is benign. However, most peoples in the US see it as something demonic leading to a pagan form of hardcore communism or something and when I hear most americans yelling against socialism, I understand how the propaganda worked well and how it did give a huge twist of sense to the real definition of socialism. For example, we have a social healthcare in Canada, we pay nothing and we can all be treated for free at the Hospital, no matter how rich or poor you are. The only thing we pay is a medical insurance of 50$ per years to cover almost any medicine you might have to take in the meantime, which cover most of the medicine from 100% to 80% of the global costs. I don't see how it is a bad thing and god knows that even if I am not rich, I am far from being part of those struggling to survive.

You don't need to tell me all this. I'm on your side, I know the facts.

Hehe, yeah, I know, but it was more of a general statement for all those who are interested to the conversation than a simple and single answer to your post