215 Socialist Values

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Where best to find out what values American socialists are espousing than to read the U.S. Socialist Party website, which immediately states the goal of: “a society founded on principles of egalitarian, non-exploitative and non-violent relations among all people and between all peoples.” Egalitarianism, often expressed as Equality, is the Marxism end of the socialist spectrum, from those according to their ability, to those according to their need, until equal.</p> <div id="Section1" dir="LTR"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I'll comment on the specific socialist values listed in their platform:</p> </div> <div id="Section2" dir="LTR"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Liberation of Oppressed People</strong>. Liberation? Oppressed? That's some Che Guevara magic right there.</p> </div> <div id="Section3" dir="LTR"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="wsite-content4"></a><strong>Feminism and Women's Liberation.</strong> Who woulda thunk feminists were socialists?</p> </div> <div id="Section4" dir="LTR"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="wsite-content5"></a><strong>International Solidarity & Peace.</strong> So that would be Globalism.</p> </div> <div id="Section5" dir="LTR"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="wsite-content6"></a><strong>Cultural Freedom.</strong> The best Google hit I could get on this had something to do with “fulfillments of the psychic need of man.” Perhaps something to do with more federal holidays?</p> </div> <div id="Section6" dir="LTR"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="wsite-content1"></a><strong>Full Employment</strong> is something all political Parties should adopt.</p> </div> <div id="Section7" dir="LTR"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="wsite-content2"></a><strong>Ecological Harmony</strong>. Any go<span style="font-weight: normal;">al including the word “harmony,” I'm guessing is a subjective call.</span></p> </div> <div id="Section8" dir="LTR"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="wsite-content"></a><strong>Worker & Community Control</strong> sounds like the traditional socialist tendency against private property.</p> </div> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The values of the U.S. Socialist Party seem very similar to Soviet Era Red Scare stuff, with all the implications thereof.</p>