On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> socialism has never been popular in individualistic societies, such
> as the US or Anglo-Saxon countries in general.
The British voted decisively for socialism in 1945, and despite uninterrupted and increasing betrayals by the Laborites (new and old) the Tories have never won a majority vote. Socialism was very popular in the US during the decades around the turn of the century and it took all-out state repression to reduce it to a "tolerable" minority status in the 1920's and thereafter.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos