What is Socialism? Does the
word apply to Obama?
September 14, 2009
by Jeffrey
Tucker
The New York Times offers a very funny look at the new fashion for
calling Obama a socialist and investigates this issue as if the
phenomenon is a strange linguistic invasion that requires the expertise
of a psychoanalyst.
Hence, the first expert to weigh in chalks the use of the word up to
“unconscious anxieties about modernity.”
Where are the tomatoes to hurl at this history prof?
So on it goes with the sole exception of Steven Hayward who inches closer
toward a realistic analysis, though he repeats that story about Mises
leaving the Mont Pelerin Society in disgust at the direction the debate
was taking (as I recall from the actual history, how to get the
government more revenue through tax shifting).
Look, this subject is not complicated. More government control leads
toward socialism; less government control leads away from socialism. In
addition, there are both left-wing and right-wing forms of socialism. Why
is calling Obama a socialist considered so wicked? Didn’t the left often
call Bush a Nazi, which means national socialist?
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