AND SPEAKING OF WHAT SOCIALISM REALLY IS

Here is a link to a brief Youtube of Noam Chomsky explaining how the word "socialism" has been screwed up, and what it actually means.

I really can't stress how important it is to get the word out.  In the West, particularly North America, we are born and raised in a climate which tells us that if we abandon capitalism we can only go to what the bourgeoisie call "socialism," and that this "socialism" has something to do with the old Soviet Union.

One of capitalism's major lines of defense is to bugger up even the words that would help us to think of an alternative.