[lbo-talk] Socialist revival needed

[Carl Remick]

[Finallly!  An article that can be read with real satisfaction instead of 
grim satisfaction:]

The Left Needs More Socialism

by RONALD ARONSON

It's time to break a taboo and place the word "socialism" across the top of 
the page in a major American progressive magazine. Time for the left to stop 
repressing the side of ourselves that the right finds most objectionable. 
Until we thumb our noses at the Democratic pols who have been calling the 
shots and reassert the very ideas they say are unthinkable, we will keep 
stumbling around in the dark corners of American politics, wondering how we 
lost our souls--and how to find them again. ...

<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060417/aronson>

Carl