Sorry My Dear, but socialism is already a part of the fabric of our society. When you see serious political candidates, whose platforms include destruction of, or abolishment of: Social Security, Medicare, public education, public utilities, food and drug safety, licensing of medical practitioners, highway and transportation planning, etc etc, you can have your libertarian anarchism or ???, till then we are, as most successful nations are, a mixed economy.
The only reason socialism is a bad word is that most associate it with communism. We could argue whether communism ever truly existed but note that communism is a closed system as would be your libertarian anarchism or free market capitalism or whatever the day dreamers of today think leads to economic nirvana.
Economics in the modern world is mixed and will remain so, it really is more about regulating them, then in labeling them that helps maintain peace and prosperity for all. We have Enron et al, the great depression, and the recent near financial collapse to prove regulation is essential to any working system.
I am a liberal, a progressive, a democratic socialist, an economic democrat, a radical conservative, a social democrat, an economic humanist, wrote Martin Gardner, me too.
The only reason socialism is a bad word is that most associate it with communism. We could argue whether communism ever truly existed but note that communism is a closed system as would be your libertarian anarchism or free market capitalism or whatever the day dreamers of today think leads to economic nirvana.
Economics in the modern world is mixed and will remain so, it really is more about regulating them, then in labeling them that helps maintain peace and prosperity for all. We have Enron et al, the great depression, and the recent near financial collapse to prove regulation is essential to any working system.
I am a liberal, a progressive, a democratic socialist, an economic democrat, a radical conservative, a social democrat, an economic humanist, wrote Martin Gardner, me too.