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
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