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socialism

That Old “Socialism” Slur

February 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Bernie Sanders socialism by DonkeyHotey.

For decades, Republicans have painted anyone left of Barry Goldwater as a “socialist.” Why? Because for a generation raised on the Cold War, “socialist” just seemed like a damaging label.

From Social Security to Medicare to Great Public Works: America’s Socialism in Action

September 12, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The GOP hopes the S-word will scare you, but great public works projects underpinned by socialist funding principles transformed this country for the better, as did socialist programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism

March 14, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Today’s Republicans might call “socialist” Dwight Eisenhower “Red Ike.” After all, during Eisenhower’s two terms to 1960, the wealthy paid a top tax rate of 91 percent on incomes over the equivalent of $1.7 million for an individual and $3.4 million for a couple.

Non, Sarkozy: In France, François Hollande Brings Socialism Back to Power After 24 Years

May 6, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Socialist François Hollande is the new French president, defeating Nicolas Sarkozy with 52 percent of the vote, and making the mercurial Sarkozy France’s first one-term president since Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 1981

Socialism, Capitalism, and Other Fallen Stock

May 9, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads

We can rail about socialism’s evil and worship capitalism all we like. It won’t get us out of the hole we spent the last 30 years digging. History and Adam Smith are better guides.

Teddy Roosevelt on Socialism

December 20, 2009 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Many of the men who call themselves Socialists to-day are in reality merely radical social reformers, with whom on many points good citizens can and ought to work in hearty general agreement.

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