I dont think the bailing out of Big Business and the banks by republican or democratic politicians can be even remotely described as socialism.
Capitalism has been described as "a band of warring brothers" and what we are seeing in the USA and Britain is an attempt to rescue some of these "warring brothers" in the interest of general capitalism.
Socialism is not going to be delivered by some rich financier or hard nosed banker......it will come through the mass conscious activity of the working class!

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