Maybe for many of us mentioning the word socialism brought to our mind communism or the dark side of the URSS as an old nightmare for many people who lived under the oppression of a few. After listening to some friend of mine the meaning of Democratic socialism, which is sanitized by capitalists and neoliberals, make a little sense in terms of democracy. What if we put socialism and democracy together? Well we have the entire population controlling the economy using some kind of democracy in order to meet the needs of the whole population and not make profits for just a few. It sounds good to me give their people the power to manage their own economy. Because of the past experiences socialism has being growing in erroneous way on American people. A good example we can see in 1993 when a National Health Insurance was attacked, defeated and catalogued as “Socialized medicine”. So many will ask if this system is so perfect why is not applied now? There are right now democrats focusing in small steps to make this dream a reality for many struggling with medical insurance, better salaries or a better protection to us workers. Even though capitalism will be with us for a long time, socialism is an attainable goal worth struggling for.
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