The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.)

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>I wish you would stop using the term "socialism" to refer to something 
>which clearly isn't socialism. I'm willing to compromise on this, perhaps 
>we can agree to you using the term "market socialism" to describe a social 
>system where production is still carried out for profit, but the employing 
>class is democratically elected. I'm not entirely happy with such an 
>association between a capitalist system and the word "socialism", to put it 
>mildly. But at least it would be an improvement over you simply referring 
>to it as socialism, without any qualification.
>
>I presume you are not deliberately trying to confuse people, so perhaps 
>this would be a way to make yourself clearer.
>

Look, you guys have already got me to decide I am not a Marxist. Do you 
really want me to decide that I am not a socialist? My views are not 
"clearly" not socialist; they are widely shared by many self-identified 
socialists, and you have no proprietary rights to the term. I think my 
ideals and prescriptions are socialist, and that as sure as hell as what 
capitalists would call them, since they involve taking the private property 
now in capitalist hands and vesting ownership and control of that property 
in the workers collectively. Call that what you like. I won't argue about 
whether it qualifiesa s socialist anymore.

jks

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