QUOTE on Socialism: "When I say "more socialism" I mean that the United States already has a considerable public infrastructure (roads, public schools, libraries, water supply, the Post Office) as well as democratic provisioning (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, public hospitals, the Veterans Administration). When the right attacks any of this as "socialist," we should stop denying it and, as Barry Logan puts it, acknowledge "the sleeping elephant in the living room." It's not that "socialism hasn't been born yet." We should embrace the name "socialism" for all these daily life realities and dozens of other collective democratic acquisitions, including the regulations and social welfare expenditures desired by Seaman and Turner. We should respond by saying, "Yes, ALL this is socialist, and we need MORE socialism." And then go on to talk about a single-payer health system, and then equal educational and career opportunities and then the right to unions, and then a global New Deal, and the stakeholder control of the economy, and then creating social investment funds, and then.
Which points up why it may not fit, as Earl Hazell asserts, to call democracy "the new socialism." On the contrary, I would argue that one of the ways to make America more democratic is through the kinds of reforms and structural changes we call "socialist." America needs more socialism. - Ronald Aronson --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
