Socialism No Longer Has Negative Connotation

[Imran Siddiqui]

No, not really... as witnessed by the US's reaction to the Great Depression.

[Darius871]

No, not really... as witnessed by the US's reaction to the Great Depression.

any inconvenient fact = anomaly

[Felch]

One of the beliefs of libertarians is that we all know our own best interest and act accordingly.

What are the beliefs of communists? That Comrade Stalin will know our best interests and act accordingly?

Thanks, but I'd rather make my own mistakes than wind up in a gulag. There are worse things then being free.

[Unimatrix11]

You know, Felch, that this was unfair. That is like taking Bush or worse as the example for democratically elected leaders - he was as democratically elected (the 1st time) as stalin was a communist (at least) - both were a shame of what they were supposed to represent. Yeah, the attempt for a communist society failed in the USSR. And france is currently in its 5th republic.

BTW: Che´s statement was that the assumption of the ´homo oeconmocus´ is bogus - and i share that opinion.

[chequita guevara]

No, not really... as witnessed by the US's reaction to the Great Depression.

any inconvenient fact = anomaly

Not so much. First, as you should well know, there was a small fascist movement in the United States and there was an attempt by the capitalists to organize a fascist march on Washington which was to result in a coup, the Business Plot.

Two, not all of the conditions for fascism existed in the U.S. First and foremost, as strong as the socialist movement was, most workers weren't even unionized, and weren't interested in overthrowing the state.

Finally, while a lot of capitalists went out of business, the U.S. capitalist class, as a whole, wasn't facing an inability to extract a profit.

So not even one of the three necessary conditions for fascism existed in the U.S.