Yet in it's purest manifestation, Communism and Socialism has resulted in classicism and slavery. There was a book about the Gulag, as I recall...

I've never heard of Vince Robertson, which is fine because I doubt that he has ever heard of me. Class oppression is certainly a great sin, but not certainly not the opposite of Communism and Socialism. Oppression and classicism are in fact tools of Communists. They use them as a rationale to support their own position, then use them as tools to maintain it. As Orwell stated "some are more equal than others". I do agree that everyone should be rewarded for their own work and those who don't are allowed to fail. And I have already stated on another thread that the problem with fully unrestrained capitalists is that it results in too few rather than too many capitalists. Communism takes from the one who earns it and gives it to the one who wants it. Which is, unfortunately, what is happening in this country.