Righto. It's best to leave small local entrepreneurs such as the farmer, the grocer, and the guitar player (!) alone to pursue their small scale capitalism in their own unique way. It's when a group of incredibly rich financiers get together with lawyers and bankers and create unreal shell games to make even more money that capitalism goes totally berserk...and that's corporatism.

I don't know if Sarah Palin understands the difference, but it's quite clear that people who are scared by the word "socialism" don't.

Now, if it were possible to create a moneyless society here on Earth like that depicted on the Star Trek series....one where everyone's material needs were provided, where everyone got an excellent education, and where everyone got a decent job, and where hard work was rewared with a promotion (a more interesting job) rather than being given a bigger salary....well, that would be pure socialism with genuine social justice and equality, and I'd love to see a situation like that.

But it's not going to happen. Not a chance. It's a dream that we will never see...at least not in our mortal lifetimes.

There's no way the corporate ferengi presently running the show would ever allow that to happen.