Comments Posted By Gary McGuane
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Obama is not a socialist because he does not believe that "industries should be nationalized by the government or even taken over by the workers?"
Encyclopedia Britannica defines socialism as "collective or public ownership or control of property and natural resources." Dictionary.com says it is "the vesting of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution of capital, land etc. in the community as a whole."
Socialism is not narrowly defined as nationalization of industries. Nationalization is a tactic, not an economic system. Socialists in the West learned in the 60s that outright revolution would not work in modern capitalist democracies. But they have not ceased being socialists, they have simply changed their tactics.
What precisely is your evidence that Obama does not strongly favor the "public...control of capital and national resources," or "the control of the means of production and (in particular) distribution of capital, land etc.?"
The only difference between what you see as the real socialists in France and the pseudo-socialists in Germany is how far down the path their respective socialist elites have been able to drag them. Take a look some time at how the EU is being dragged kicking and screaming to centralized control in Brussels...if they can ever find a way to get around those pesky voters in Ireland, England, Germany....
Comment Posted By Gary McGuane On 11.10.2008 @ 16:08
