Socialism

"In this post-Communist era when even "liberal" has become a dirty word, the effort to create a more humane society will not be revived without explicit demands long associated with socialism. Social movements for environmental protection, women's rights and racial equality sooner or later run up against the institutional constraints imposed by capitalism. Then they discover that they can't achieve their goals without becoming anticapitalist. What will individuals and groups demanding equality, democracy, respect for the environment and freedom from the market call themselves as they try to coalesce around increasingly global demands and on behalf of increasingly global alternatives? We need not be timid about naming this "socialism." What else is it? What a new progressive movement needs can be simply stated: more socialism. "


The Left Needs More Socialism
April 1, 2006 Ronald Aronson
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060417/aronson

I think this article from 2006 is appropriate in todays world. We have now had the majority of the US vote for socialism. We have had a major political party run on the platform of taking money from the rich and making everyone equal and win. We have voted against personal responsibility and drive to make ones life better, and instead would choose to take the money from the people who have had that drive in the past and been successful at it. It doesn't matter that no one in the middle class will benefit from hurting the people that sign their paychecks. It only matters that the rich feel as miserable as everyone else. The amazing thing to me, is that they ran on this platform. It wasn't some attempt to pull the wool over our eyes and lie about what the left actually believes in. They ran on it, and we voted for it. I just hope we get what we asked for.