Watching heiress and Nation co-owner Katrina vanden Heuvel on Morning Joe today, I was reminded of what a masterful job the left have done at discrediting the term "socialism." Listening to her rabidly left critiques of the House-approved Health Care "Reform" bill, one could not avoid reflexively categorizing her as a socialist. But of course, anyone who dares invoke the term is immediately lumped in with the Beck-Limbaugh-Hannity blowhard crowd. Today's left has effectively disabled the word as a functioning instrument of description.
Think about it; a formal definition of socialism is: "various theories of economic organization advocating public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with a method of compensation based on the amount of labor expended" (Socialism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press). If the current thrust of the current health care policy change does NOT fit the above, I'm not sure what does. Yet, I will be called, variously, kooky, mean, or cartoonish for saying so.
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