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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 214 What Is Socialism?
Description: It is very curious that the word that best describes the division of politics & morals in the United States is rarely used in public: socialism. Until the Cold War, socialists and the Socialist party were not coy about their beliefs or their goals. Marx was celebrated in churches, printed on pamphlets, and was the ideology of several cabinet members in Franklin Roosevelt’s administration. However, later, because Marxism was the basic tenant of the failed Soviet Union, the words, socialism, Marxism & Communism have been tainted in America, though not so much in the rest of the world. Socialism is st...