jar writes:
Even though it was US "agin" Communism in the Cold War. It is simply the fact that so many Americans today have never learned that words actually have meanings.
Yes, and those meanings depend on context and change over time, as the English language eternally evolves, which is exemplified by the Oxford English Dictionary.
The word "socialism" used to primarily mean worker ownership of the means of production. In the USA, the word "socialism" means Social Democrat, a term quite familiar to Europeans, which means you *actually* give a fuck about your citizens and show it by not making their lives both "brutish and short'.
I was in Atlanta early last August for the National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America as a voting alternate member. That's one of over 1000, so my personal definition of socialism as voted on at it's most representative body in the USA counts as much as Elizabeth Warren's native ancestry claim, which is
around 1/1024.
I am actually to the left of Sanders, as I believe Facebook, Google, PG&E, etc. should be bought out and all stock holding shares given to the workers of those companies. As for any compensation for any former major stockholders, I think that should be done after the money stolen from the workers in the form of sweatshop conditions or due to underpaying workers and letting the taxpayers pick up the tab in EBT and Medicaid is refunded.
Welfare queens indeed.
However, I am not entirely representative of the DSA at large.
The support for Sanders in the DSA is pretty unanimous, so it appears the USA definition of socialist, right here, right now, is real close to his platform.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon