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...Diuguid’s allegation that calling Obama “socialist” was racist due to J. Edgar Hoover’s labeling of civil-rights icons Martin Luther King, Jr., and W.E.B. Du Bois as such. Just because the long list of individuals smeared as socialist happens to include prominent blacks alongside prominent whites like Franklin Roosevelt and every Democrat since does not make the word racial. Furthermore, the socialism charge was not leveled until Obama told a certain plumber that he wished to “spread the wealth around.” If encrypted racialism...
...trade destroyed the fragile geopolitical stability that had been created after the end of the First World War. Weimar Germany’s economy, already suffering from hyperinflation and political polarization, all but collapsed as a result of the tariff war, leading to the meteoric rise of the National Socialist Workers’ Party in the parliamentary elections of 1932. Today, Hungary and Ukraine are in danger of defaulting on their already-generous IMF loan packages, while South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan fear for the long-term health of their economies. If America slides into protectionism, the relative geopolitical stability...
...sure, many economists, and Americans in general, remain firmly against the idea. Some aversion relates to the very word nationalization, which evokes images of socialist regimes seizing private companies. A recent USA Today-Gallup poll found that 57% of Americans are against "temporarily nationalizing U.S. banks." Yet only 44% oppose a less politically threatening version, "temporarily taking [a bank] over...
...rallies—held at 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.—were comprised by members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the Services Employees International Union, the Student Labor Action Movement, and the Cambridge political group Socialist Alternative...
...Balart and Ros-Lehtinen - a source that may only grow stronger as the ties between the Castros and Chávez grow warmer. Indeed, soon after he was first elected, the Venezuelan President asked then Cuban leader Fidel Castro for advice on how to transform his country into a socialist state for the 21st century. Chávez also began to refer to Castro as his "father." (Fidel, 82 and ailing, has since ceded power to his younger brother Raúl.) Today, oil-rich Venezuela sends Cuba discounted crude in exchange for doctors and teachers to administer...