Re: Socialism For Dummies or: Why Obama Isn't a Communist, Marxist, or Socialist

Thiose who use words as clubs are misguided bullies.

On 10/20/10, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:
> How do you know that you are a socialist?
> October 22, 2008
> by Jeffrey Tucker
>
> This is one weird article in the Chicago Tribune. It quotes a real-life
> communist complaining about the "red baiting." One might suppose that if you
> call yourself a communist, you might be "read baited" just a bit.
>
> Otherwise the article is pretty mixed up. It denies that Obama is a
> socialist but says that socialism "involves espousing government control
> over a country's basic industries, like transportation, communication and
> energy, while also allowing some government regulation of private
> industries."
>
> By that standard, it would seem that that the entire political
> establishment, which approves of government control and regulation over darn
> near everything, is socialist.
>
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