> I've been trying to identify the beginning of this cluster of posts
> under several different Subject lines actually began. My best guess is
> that it began with a mistake -- mine. I thought Dennis was talking about
> a future socialsit society and he was instead talking about a particular
> reform struggle in the present. My response, laboring under this
> misconstrual, set off the debate(s).
>
> Is this corrct or was there some other beginning?
>
No, I think it started before that, when Doug posted a Gallup press release titled "36% of Americans have a positive image of socialism."
SA