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1/27/09

Esquire: What's So Bad About Socialism Anyway? - by Stephen Marche

US Deficit 41% of GDP by 2080


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What's So Bad About Socialism Anyway? - by Stephen Marche

Roland Barthes, the French theorist and semiotician, once wrote that sex is everywhere in America, except in sex. For the past 40 years, the same has been true for socialism, which has been simultaneously nowhere and everywhere in America, falsely denied by its politics and falsely claimed by its popular culture. Obama's followers want results, on the financial crisis, the environment, and the war in Iraq. Who has time to watch four-and-a-half-hour movies about dead guerrillas?

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