In my heart I'm a socialist; in my mind I'm a capitalist.
The need, in fact, is for a realignment of the mind, socialist in economics and republican in politics.
The fact that it's being reclaimed, with pride, is probably the beginning of a very short answer: if you can ask, "Am I a socialist?" and not mind getting a "Yes", then you probably are one, or at the very least, know some.
He was just one man, of course – we couldn't extrapolate from this that all inventors and entrepreneurs are driven by the thrill of building communal expertise, or seek to build a socialist utopia of the mind in which knowledge moves freely between connected individuals, creating a kind of futuristic super brain.
Before images of a socialist march come to mind, this system is already in practice in the United States, albeit piecemeal.
I am opposed to abortion, same-sex marriage, larger and socialist government, and "open minds" that are closed to common sense.
It might be odd to speak at primary schools in Islington at lunch where more than half of the kids are on free school meals and meet City bankers in the evening where they are dining off gold plates, but I always treat all my constituents with an open mind – albeit a socialist one.
My view is that the main model that 20th-century socialists and communists had in mind was the state-directed war economies of the first world war, which weren't particularly socialist but did provide some kind of guidance on how socialisation might work.
The terrible irony is that Michael, being a socialist, probably wouldn't have minded that I was conversing with him while sitting on the toilet.
He has cast aside many of the rules and adages of American politics, one of which is that it's hard for liberals, never mind self-described socialists, to win support in the Sun Belt.
