"Raw talk revival" – good article. Tnx 4 the epiphany I got fm yr description of army base kids in practical terms living a socialist life. I’ve seen that life-style as elitist privilege, but of course: It’s simply a society (the military one) taking care of its own. And why not extend this to everyone? Very good Q.
It seems the concept of socialism has taken such a bad-mouthing & beating in the US over the past century, that noone (in the Dominant Public Sphere) any longer looks at its actual practical contents. Scared away fm looking at & pointing to good solutions, simply for these solutions being too similar to the denigrated concept of socialism. Neat trick fm the powers that be interested in stalling Equitable Reciprocity. Yet the roots of the USA can be found in the proto-socialist movement of the French / New England intellectuals of the late 18th century: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity being the main slogan (slightly updated – "Brotherhood" = Solidarity). Better keep that fact shunted aside by being talked to little pieces of no consequence (again in the DPS).
Living in Norway we keep being told ours is a semi-ideal society near to socialism – the social-democratic approach. But although on the outskirts of ‘Empire’, attitudes here are strongly ‘guided’ by signals fm the US. We can do as we please, as long as our economic premises follow US ways. Which leaves fairly little to discuss. Luckily our oil makes us filthy rich, allowing a semblance of equality to be poured atop the basic inequalities. Meanwhile the ideology (?) of ‘privatization’ gnaws at the roots of our hard-won welfare-society. Which is why I’m concerned with what happens in the US. It directly impacts us pretty quickly.
So when smbd in the US speaks truth to power, that is very much in my personal interest, too. Pls keep it up.
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