"b] quiver in pants filling fear that socialism may reignite as a positive force for progressive social fairness and change ?"

You've got it totally wrong there PFR what we need to be fighting for is political and economic change.....Social change "progressive" or otherwise.....what a fucking meaningless word! will be decided issue by issue, decided by what is in the long term interests of society, not what is "progressive" flavour of the month.
I see a fairly conservative society emerging from a socialist political system.