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In reply to the discussion: Here's how to change the world [View all]BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)Is socialism experiencing a resurgence? I am not sure, and at any rate it doesn't matter whatsoever unless they can organize in a meaningful way and enact some kind of change. Nobody in either party save for Senator Sanders is a socialist or has positions even approaching genuine socialism, and the elite from which most politicians are chosen from are certainly not socialist.
FDR is dead and so is his brand of progressivism, which was largely born out of fear of the population and successful revolutions abroad. We have neither, so your invoking of FDR and the new deal is specious at best. Just look at the incredible resistance and incredulity people had with Piketty's "radical" suggestion of restoring tax rates that existed in the 1950's.