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To: Elsewhere who wrote (66983)	1/19/2003 2:54:30 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh, Jochen, the use of "Socialists" to describe SDS members in the 60s is just one more attempt to take a category certain posters here consider objectionable and then relabel a lot of the past with it. If you read the basic texts of SDS you'll see they could be labeled socialists only in the broadest of senses, something like Bill sometimes uses, which is anyone who favors government action on just about any front. Bill is, constitutionally speaking, a libertarian and has, of course, earned his stripes on that point. But so far as any formal sense of the word, say the way Europeans tend to use the word, the 60s embodiment of SDS was a lot of things only a few of which were seriously Socialist. It was American to the core, idealistic to the core, participatory democracy to the core, more than a touch of populism. It's conception of state action was closer to welfare capitalism than to state directed economic planning.