We Ned to Talk About Socialism
Channel: Atheist Linguist
Date: 2024-01-31

I'm back, and with a new look too!  After a shamefully long hiatus, which I hope to make up for soon, I indulge in a bit of catharsis with this political hot take.  I attempt to pin down the various, often overlapping, but still crucially different definitions of "socialism" in American parlance and inoculate people against the equivocation upon which so much right-wing rhetoric seems to depend.

Source for Tax Rates in the '50s and '60s: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates

Text-to-speech and avatar animation by Synthesia.