>IMHO, both apologists and assailants of "really existing socialism"
>don't (didn't) understand what it was. They plugged the lives of
>complex societies about which they knew very little into a simple
>framework (building socialism? yes or no), not realizing that the
>concerns of people in these societies (mainly, how do we get by) did
>not really have much to do with building socialism.
So what is socialism, do tell? And who are these people whose concerns don't have anything to do with economic security? What are their real concerns.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas