> It's for reasons you said that I'm glad the word "socialism" is being reappropriated from Marx. The world needs to be able to talk about socialist forms of so

> It's for reasons you said that I'm glad the word "socialism" is being reappropriated from Marx. The world needs to be able to talk about socialist forms of society without this talk being tainted by Marxist theory and the shadow of communist history. The irony of this, of course, is that there is no communist history. The USSR etc. were socialist states[1] (in name if not in practice.) [1] Socialism as defined by Marx is the transition period after the revolution, before communism is achieved.