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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (236647)11/3/2013 11:14:26 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 543015
 
It always surprises me that otherwise reasonably smart posters fall for the "oh, this is socialism" trap, meaning unmitigated evil, without checking matters out. Even with fairly serious socialism, it's a long and winding downhill slide from Clement Atlee's views and, let's say, Lenin or Stalin. Enough to be different categories. As for democratic socialism, it's well known that it's subject to the disciplines of democratic politics. As evidence by the Scandinavian countries, for one.

I think of two mistakes as parallel. The one is to take a very bad instance of socialism and then cherry pick into calling it the essence of socialism. The other is to take a very bad instance of capitalism and do the same. Both are failures of critical thinking.

In short, we need to buttress the liberal arts portion of higher education; not undermine it as we are doing at present.
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