I am not good with the computer so forgive me if I fail with the attachment I will attempt to add here.

A local legislator stated that the Constitution permits him to shoot Socialists. No wonder Montana has a questionable reputation. (You may remember our member in congress assaulted a reporter the eve of the last election and was elected any way. He is now running for Governor.)

Ok, I'm stuck in the 19th century. I guess if you want to see just how stupid people can be you'll have to search for the Billings Gazette and read the opinion page.

Leapin Lizzards!! I never expected to cause so much excitement. As far as I know there onlly a few religious communities are close to being purely Socialist. However even Hutterites have capitalist moments. I like go to farmers markets and buy vegetables and bread from them. They are the first to say that it is hard to live under their system and not everyone can manage it. That said they have colonized a great deal of largely unproductive land and been very successful. They have been around for several hundred years.

I do not know of any society that is even close to being purely capitalist. (Feel free to enlighten me.)

Communities that prosper are usually ones that mix socialist and capitalist practices without worrying too much about doctrinaire labels.

Karl, thank you for your satire. The problem is that we often get brainwashed right wing trolls who use similar phrases. This is what produced the unfortunate negative reactions.
Please don't let these initial negative reactions deter you from submitting similar satire again.

I think anyone who wants to check out a book from a library should first have to build it, then fill it with book only he can check out. Someone else wants to read they would have to do the same thing. That is freedom of choice to read anything you want.

Karl, don't be discouraged by the reactions -- just have to gauge your audience better. I once wrote an ironic letter to a newspaper editor thinking it was a masterpiece of subtlety too. He edited it so that I sounded the opposite of what I intended. I got death threats over the phone from people whom I thought were on my side, but they were too thick to get it because they only understood unimaginative vitriol in monosyllables. Even if you advance to being the world's greatest satirist -- the Swift or Hazlitt of your day -- you will be misunderstood hated in your own time, often even by admirers: one thing you have to bear in mind.

Very funny! Really!
Guys, Karl is being ironic. Re-read what he wrote. It actually satirizes those who criticize socialism while benefiting from aspects of it…

@karl: there are other places you can go to commit social suicide. Please go away and leave us thinking people alone!

My hypothesis is that Karl grew up hating the name at recess - Karl of the Marx brothers?, and thus has a need to vent on anything with a word whispered like socialism.

My understanding is that libraries were donated to the public from profits made from the 'wonders' of capitialism but I never thought their content was determined by any prevailing political-economic system.

@karl What's your point?
I did see you mention something about the "horrors of socialism"...this meme is for you!