Okay so don’t get socialism confused with social democracy. The latter is what progressives were aiming for in the Roosevelt administration. It was a combination of Keynesian economics with State planning. See Roosevelt’s 1944 State of the Union speech. This was also the basis of Bernie’s platform. It isn’t socialism which is something t…
Okay so don’t get socialism confused with social democracy. The latter is what progressives were aiming for in the Roosevelt administration. It was a combination of Keynesian economics with State planning. See Roosevelt’s 1944 State of the Union speech. This was also the basis of Bernie’s platform. It isn’t socialism which is something that has never been realized because it involves a different method for allocating capital, it was a form of state capitalism and was not what we have now as a result of all the post WW2 Republican red baiting.
Okay so don’t get socialism confused with social democracy. The latter is what progressives were aiming for in the Roosevelt administration. It was a combination of Keynesian economics with State planning. See Roosevelt’s 1944 State of the Union speech. This was also the basis of Bernie’s platform. It isn’t socialism which is something that has never been realized because it involves a different method for allocating capital, it was a form of state capitalism and was not what we have now as a result of all the post WW2 Republican red baiting.
The accepted "official" definitions lack relevance. Republicans are using their invented definition to their advantage