What most of us learned in school about socialism is that it was half communism and half capitalism. Some industries were owned and controlled by the state and others were left to private industries. Socialism is just a gateway to communism. Once industries become state owned and controlled, private initiative is destroyed. Unless the people become enlightened, much like what is happening in Europe right now. Europe is starting to lean conservative, granted it's not like American conservatism, but it's a step in the right direction.
If you look up the meaning of socialism, you get a bunch of references to Karl Marx and central planning. Doesn't sound like what I learned in school. What I found was basically communism by another name. If socialism controls the means of production under central planning, what's that make communism?
The 2008 - 2009 Socialist USA party has the following platform:
Worker and community ownership of all corporations, minimum and maximum wage, full employment for those who want to work and a guaranteed annual income, central banking, steeply graduated income tax, graduated estate/luxury/capital gains tax, compensating community's for base and social service closures, expanded welfare and unemployment (thought there was full employment) programs at guaranteed livable wage, closing military bases foreign and domestic, total disarmament of the United States, democratic control of unions including voting in supervisors, support militant, united strikes, abolish right to work, lower the voting age to 15, sex ed in schools, abolition of parental consent, guaranteed income for artists, free childcare from infancy, school boards accountable to the students, rent control, renters unions, end to all home foreclosures, banning transportation downtown (except mass transit), federally funded auto insurance, abolition of CIA, NSA, FBI, homeland security, open borders (but get rid of NAFTA), amnesty (not really because open borders), free access to mass media, free legal services to all, community release programs and no new prisons, no supermax prisons, prisoners right to unionize, replace police w/conflict resolution people, decriminalization of drugs, government control of mass media, public ownership of farms and elimination of farm debt and return of foreclosed farms.
Wow, what a paradise. Do you need to read it again to catch all the similarities in that platform and the 10 planks of communism? My big question is, who's going to pay for all these wonderfully planned communities?
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