It's time to post this again. "Why Socialism" by Albert Einstein.

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6. That's always been my view having read that years ago. Those equating socialism with totalitarianism

Forget that there are styles of government and economic systems. There can be mixed economies with the negatives avoided. The myth that capitalism is the only engine for prosperity is pushed by those who got the most advantage in the past in circumstances in which the working people, men, women and children were treated worse during the industrial age than feudal serfs.

Another base of operations was the plantation system version of economy and there was the ultimate of free enterprise with no democracy. There is no free market when there is nothing to protect those working as slaves! Making money is not the measure of morality.

Those who are rabid about capitalism and refuse to even permit socialism to be used for things it is efficient in providing are irrational. They turned capitalism into a religion. Nothing is worthy of being idolized or enslaved by. They are no different than deciding to drive on the left or right side of the road, or what color shirt to wear. Do what works.

I am a fan of Michael Parenti because this is plain talk. If one takes off the blinders of Cold War hysteria, one can see he is saying something logical here: