Socialist Progressives
In reply to the discussion: What led you to socialism? [View all]emaxwell1313
(9 posts)I was referring to the one where in 2009 1/5 of Americans said they supported socialism. That is surprising; but I doubt even they were referring to socialism like in Sweden/Denmark. In America, a system that mixes Capitalism and Socialism is considered by American people to be pure Socialism. As for me, I guess I could be called a Keynsian; I believe that there are times when a govt intervention is needed, and that a responsible govt should intervene in certain crisis, but also that the free markets can do very good things in encouraging individualism, promoting equality and encouraging to judge people by what they can do, not race or gender and protecting the environment. I want a degree of govt intervention and while I concur that we cant declare Socialism a failure, I am definitely not ready to declare the free markets a failure and I probably never will be. And as for helping the less fortunate, I have long been uncomfortable with the govt forcing people to help less fortunate.