> Last time I checked you called yourself a socialist.
> Lots of 20th century socialists believed in one-party
> dictatorship, cults of personality, mass murder,
> secret political police and torture of "enemies of the
> people," huge concentration camp systems, forced
> labor, guilt by association, preposterous paranoid
> charges and show trials, widespread censorship, and
> other unsavories. Do you think we should give up that
> term -- socialism -- and find an expression that no
> one has sullied -- until _it_ gets dirty?
>
> I think attack on liberalism ought to have gone out of
> style around the time of forced collectivization, the
> Moscow Purge trials at the latest.
Seems that a lot of the folks that you were offering so much praise for in the free speech and civil rights movements had some rather trenchent words about liberalism.
robert wood