I'd quite like to visit Georgia I think. Just to confuse everyone with my simultaneous overtly Leftist/Socialist tendencies, atheism and my support for gun rights and loathing of Liberals... and possibly a desire for them to secede from the Union.
Eh, most people from conservative areas understand that Europeans are often socialists. The expression that they should be their nation would probably be taken surprisingly well by good ol' boys and very badly by black southerners, and I doubt I need to explain why. Secessionist fervor is intrinsically linked to racism here.
Yes. Though at times American Liberals really get on my wick too, bloody pinkos. Besides the reasons in that video there I'm also generally frustrated by the fact that they're seldom radical enough.
Sometimes we have to chose between actually making positive changes or being ideologically pure. Because we sure as hell can't let the Republicans have an inch. That guy is a dismissive moron who doesn't understand the reality of politics in this nation. We should work hard to support left-wing candidates where we can, but when it comes down to the wire we also have to bite the bullet to keep the real monsters out of power.
Why can't we call ourselves Socialists anymore? Why do we have to use that god-awful expression "Progressive"? It just makes me think of Oliver Stone and granola bars.
It all depends on what you're talking about. You'll actually find a lot of people in the US who think that "socialism", in the vague sense, is a good thing, but very few actually identify with the socialist movement. As for progressive, it's because that's what most left people in the US really are. We are the New Progressives (the Old Progressives sometimes had...issues when it came to things like human rights), and while that sometimes overlaps with socialism it does not always do so.
So as a non-Socialist progressive (I presume), you disagree that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole?
I'm a mixed markey socialist myself, I think some sectors should be nationalized while others shouldn't. But that's what a non-Socialist progressive would believe, yes.
Agreed. In truth, I'm halfway to being a socialist myself, but collective ownership is only good in certain contexts. I would definitely like to see an explosion in workplace democracy, however.