TALKING POINTS 101: Socialism

[OneAngryDemocrat]

'Socialism' is defined as REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY in a constitutional Republic as we have here, in these United States.

Yea... you heard me right.

For DECADES the radical right has repeated ad infinitum how the US does NOT have a democracy.

"We're NOT a democracy! We are a REPUBLIC!"

As if the two were incompatible, which they emphatically are NOT.

What has been missing from the equation since Ronald 'Asshole' Reagan's administration has been any sense of community - or the commons... the idea that we're all in this together. And THAT idea is the cornerstone of socialist political theory.

So, the next time someone wants to talk about the evils of 'socialism' in the context of our constitutional republic, remind them that what they're REALLY pissed off about is REPRESENTATIVE government, for and by the people.

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[daleanime]

1. Can't rec this enought.....

[RadiationTherapy]

2. Wouldn't socialism - since it is an economic mode of thought and social organization -

be a completely separate matter from the constitutional arrangement of the tripartite government?

I thought socialism is strictly an economic matter.

[OneAngryDemocrat]

4. No

No. While socialism is an economic platform, there OBVIOUSLY is a non-economic, SOCIAL, aspect.

[RadiationTherapy]

5. Yes, I suppose. But not in terms of what makes this nation a representative democracy, right?

We are a democratic republic in terms of our tripartite government and the means by which they are - ideally - elected. That has nothing much to do with capitalism or socialism, does it?

[RobertEarl]

6. heh

Good government is socialism at its best.

Good government provides - via economic socialism - for the general welfare of the people in the best way possible.

OMG!! Socialism and welfare in the same sentence!! We're doomed!

[Mnemosyne]

3. K&R! nt