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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (92548)10/30/2008 12:24:08 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (2) of 541794
 
Lane3;

Your image of a marxist and socialist differ greatly from mine. I am not afriad of socialism at all - and in fact envy some of its better aspects. Perhaps it is that I have traveled through socialistic countries and see their life as better than ours. The most socialistic of countries have higher earnings and better quality of life than Americans - not so marxist countries. Moves towards Marxism have failed miserably. A map of Marxist States;

en.wikipedia.org

And from your link;

"Socialism" originally meant government ownership of the major means of production and finance, such as land, coal mines, steel mills, automobile factories, and banks.

So the republicans have pushed the banks to become partially socialistic and will follow that with socialism for the auto companies - all the while telling voters of the evils of Obama's socialism. Palin uses the government ownership of land to make payments to the collective. .....What Obama is proposing is a fair tax - how this story got turned on its head is rather strange.

Since the "socialism" argument fails under scrutiny, DeLay moves the hate notch up and calls Obama a "radical marxist". Find me an article proposing marxism for Americans from mainstream politicians and I may buy your argument that most people might fear marxism less than socialism - until then I believe your argument fails.

Did you know we have a democratic socialist in the Senate? Not a closest socialist, but a freely elected open socialist. I suspect a marxist running for the senate would be a joke.

steve
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