On Apr 28, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > I did a bit of a > double-take when I saw that Nation Magazine regular John Nichols > was speaking at one titled “Actually Existing Socialism–in U.S. > History”. Actually, I did a quadruple-take since I had no idea > what actually existing socialism could possibly mean in capitalist > America to start with. Beyond that, how did Nichols get himself on > such a panel since The Nation has carved out such a niche for > itself as the voice of capitalist reform? Of course, the answer is > simply that for some capitalist reform and socialism are identical.
For what it's worth, John Nichols once described himself to me as "a passionate socialist." Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
