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Originally Posted by kerry edwards
Socialism is not in conflict with American principles at all. While the US might have been founded on Lockean principles of the protection of private property understand as 'real' property, those same principles also hold that each person owns their own body and its labor. So the protection of labor rights is equally as fundamental to US principles as the protection of 'real' property. Socialism is the defense of the rights of labor against the rights of capital. There is nothing anti-american about this at all.
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Depends on who you ask....
Each PERSON does own his own body and labor. However, the INDIVIDUAL is the important part of this principle that you, and many supporters of socialism, seem to overlook.
The use of large lobbying groups (unions) to politically bully companies into paying workers more than their labor is worth, and into providing more benefits and perks than were originally promised, is NOT "American".
Any student of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights can see that America's founding fathers obviously had the concepts of INDIVIDUAL freedoms, liberties, and responsibilities on their minds. True socialism seeks to suppress the individual, and make the individual's wishes irrelevant, in favor of the "group". If this is not anti-American, then nothing is.
Mike