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kenimac1
18-Aug-05, 13:53
You should start a lunatic fringe, out of touch with the real world forum!!

Rheghead
18-Aug-05, 14:57
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

marion
18-Aug-05, 21:06
Socialism began in the USA during 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced Social Security. Perhaps the trend was even earlier. The USA continues with its socialistic policies through to day whether good or bad.

golach
18-Aug-05, 21:16
Socialism began in the USA during 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced Social Security. Perhaps the trend was even earlier. The USA continues with its socialistic policies through to day whether good or bad.

Sorry Marion I dont think so, check here

http://www.labour.org.uk/labourhistory

cullbucket
18-Aug-05, 21:37
Beat me to it Golach,

Why does everything in this world have to revolve around the US?

I dont think the US version of Socialism is anything like Karl Marx would have been thinking of.....

To be honest not really sure if I would call any of US society 'socialist', good or bad....

Neo Conservative - now thats more like it.......

hereboy
18-Aug-05, 21:54
what marion says is right technically - it may have begun in the USA in 1933 - its just that it began in other places a long tome before then... and before the labour party too by the way....

Followers of Robert Owen the father of the cooperative were responsible for the first recorded usage of the word socilaism in the english language in 1827 when the labour party were not even a twinkle in someones eye...

today socialism means many things to many people, take National Socialism for example...

poor old Marx - he'd be spinning in his grave right now at the very thought....!