Will African style socialism work in America?
You’re bound to get the standard leftist objection “You don’t understand what socialism is.” See the answers to my question: What IS socialism? An escape from poverty, or a luxury for prosperous exporter nations? I have asked this question several times. Each time, I get answers from around a dozen persons. And no two of them give the same answer. But each person is supremely confident that his or her definition is the right one, and that this is the authoritative definition that we should all view as the true meaning of socialism. Even more amusing is, even though the other answers are plainly visible to them, each person seems blissfully aware that nobody else agrees with their chosen definition. Less amusingly, even though they consistently demonstrate a total lack of consensus about what socialism is, they frequently mock and berate opponents of socialism for “not understanding” what socialism is, then they invariably fail to demonstrate that they understand, either. Their answers
