"The goal of socialism is communism"

Obama is not a socialist in the sense that Lenin was using the wqord, and he is surely not a communist.

Regardless, he does believe in a compassionate intervention to reduce the bloodletting in an untrammeled capitalist structure. I think a reasonable intervention is necessary because of the power-concentration inherent in the capitalist system. I think it needs to be minimalized so as not to breed an excess of Federalism. But it needs to exist to preserve the minimum necessary democracy.


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