This is a continuing series that I offer on the post from IST past that cover this hot bed issue of socialism.
With the success and the possibilities of more success on the horizon the fearmongering machine of the GOP has once again started the long sleeping BS about socialism.
First let’s ask….what is a socialist? A simple enough question yet the answers are anything but simple….
Gertrude Stein famously wrote, “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” meaning everyone knows what a rose is. The same cannot be said of a Socialist.
There are many Democratic politicians who proudly call themselves Socialists or Democratic Socialists, and there are many adversaries who brand those individuals as Socialists. Both sides use the same word, but the word means very different things to the two sides.
https://thefulcrum.us/democracy/socialism-vs-democratic-socialism
Now with that out of the way let’s move on….
Fifteen years ago I posted a history of American socialism and I thought might be helpful for those scratching their heads about the Left turn the voters are trying.
Just my small attempt to show that all the monsters that the Right is predicting is pure fantasy….but if you still want horrors then look at what Trump and his corrupt band of bandits have done to this nation.
We are so much better than Donny and his thugs.
Let’s prove it to ourselves and the world.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I left a comment on the linked post, chuq.
Best wishes, Pete.
Your linked piece provides a good historical perspective, and I liked this from the Ronald L. Hirsch article:
Even the DSA, saying that the end of capitalism is unlikely in the foreseeable future, instead focuses on increasing the power of the people within a democratic capitalist structure. “At the root of our socialism is a profound commitment to democracy, as means and end…. DSA fights for reforms today that will weaken the power of corporations and increase the power of working people. For example, we support reforms that: decrease the influence of money in politics, empower ordinary people in workplaces and the economy, and restructure gender and cultural relationships to be more equitable.”
The DSA is thus, from a practical perspective, an organization fighting for a democracy as defined by the Declaration of Independence, a democracy that is all about securing the rights of all people and the equality of all people. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson, in his last letter, stated that the Declaration of Independence gave voice to the truth that the “mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.”
My dad was a devout FDR supporter, and he always told me that “socialism is the only system which can be fair to all people.”
I agree…..they are fighting that all Americans have the same voice….I like that….and I have been a socialist since 1965 chuq