During the election campaign, conservatives who labelled Obama and his prospective economic policies as ‘socialist’ were quickly written off as fear mongers using every desperate attempt to salvage a floundering McCain campaign. Many times did I hear this somewhat logical rebuttal: “Socialism is a political system under which the state controls the means of economic production, manufacturing, and distribution. It’s crazy to call Obama’s tax policies and plans for universally available health care and education ‘socialist’!” At the time, I would have probably agreed with this statement, but Obama’s planned public works stimulus package, I’m not so sure. No, we’re probably not moving towards the Soviet States of America, but maybe those calls of “socialism!” during the campaign weren’t so ludicrous after all?
