List of Socialists who are way smarter than you
Helen Keller
Albert Einstein
Pablo Picasso
Mumia Abu-Jamal (social critic)
Gloria Steinem (feminist)
Cesar Chavez
Kenneth J Arrow (economist, the "Arrow Theorem")
Clarence Darrow (attorney)
Noam Chomsky (Libertarian Socialist, linguist)
Socialists are intelligent
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I like that list. I consider myself a Bernie Sanders type democratic socialist. I'm all about the working class, EXTREMELY strong on Unions and don't give a flying fuck about billionaires. I want to do away with the Citizens United Ruling and do away with MONEY IN POLITICS altogether. If it were up to me, lobbyists would not be able to give a single penny to a politician or a political campaign because money corrupts. Lawmakers should be paid much more than they are now in order to attract quality people, but they wouldn't be able to accept bribes in the form of high paid positions once they retire, in other words, stop the revolving door. That being said I'm not an anti-capitalist. I believe that capitalism works with firm restraints in place because unbridled capitalism allowed to run amok is bad for the country and robs from the poor and working class. Do I qualify as a socialist? Side: Socialists are intelligent
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That being said I'm not an anti-capitalist. But everything you mentioned above are problems that capitalism created that you are trying to solve while maintaining a smaller semblance of capitalism. Capitalism is primitive and gay. Do I qualify as a socialist? Kind of almost maybe. I don't know, I'm more interested in getting you naked so I can massage your bollocks. Side: Socialists are intelligent
Dorothy Day W E B Du Bois Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; poet, playwright) Eugene V. Debs (union organizer, socialist organizer) Norman Thomas Mother Jones John Dos Passos Audre Lorde Robert Owen (utopian) Michael Harrington (author of "The Other America", preeminent socialist) H G Wells Frank Zeidler (former mayor of Milwaukee) Darlington Hoopes Alexander Cockburn (writer for the Nation, and formerly for the Wall Street Journal) Adolph Reed (writer for the Progressive, various others) Harry Houdini Doug Henwood ("Left Business Observer", radio commentator) Manning Marable (professor of Afro-American studies at Columbia) Angela Davis (professor of Philosophy at U Cal-Berkeley, a Reagan frame-up survivor) A Phillip Randolph (union leader) Martin Buber (philosopher, "Paths in Utopia") L Frank Baum (author, "The Wizard of Oz") Cornel West Jean-Paul Sartre (French existentialist) Adrienne Rich Kwame Toure (formerly Stokely Carmichael, SNCC dir., Black Panthers founder) E P Thompson Raymond Williams Rosa Luxemburg Bill Veeck (former Chicago White Sox owner) Art Spiegelman (author/illustrator of "Maus") Stephen Jay Gould (scientist) Malcom X George Bernard Shaw Dmitri Shostakovich (Soviet composer) Marie Curie (French scientist) Robert Oppenheimer Al Lewis (Grandpa on "The Munsters") C L R James Richard Feynman Ed Asner (American actor) Antonio Gramsci (Italian intellectual) Edward Bellamy (author of "Looking Backward") Sinclair Lewis (American author) John Lennon Charlie Chaplin Frances Fox Piven (American sociologist) Lincoln Steffens Lillian Hellman (American playwright) Oscar Ameringer (author, lecturer) Upton Sinclair Dashiell Hammet (American author) Barbara Ehrenreich (American essayist) Irving Howe Isaac Asimov Ron Dellums Woody Guthrie (folk singer) Major Owens (US Representative) Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard on "Star Trek: TNG") Bernie Sanders (US Representative) Dorothy Parker (American author) Bayard Rustin Karl Marx Paul Robeson (American actor) Pete Seeger (folk singer) Freidrich Engels John Stuart Mill Georg Lucacs (Hungarian intellectual) Juergen Habermas (German philosopher) Coleman A. Young (former mayor of Detroit) Nina Hartley (adult film actor) Sid Peck (organizer during Vietnam War period) Arthur Kinoy (civil rights attorney) Dr George Wald Howard Zinn (historian) Dr Michio Kaku Muhammad Ahmad (formerly Max Stanford) Assata Shakur Annette Rubenstein Bogdan Denitch Charlene Mitchell (a leader of the Committees of Correspondence) J Quinn Brisben Sam Friedman Niilo Koponen (Alaskan public figure) Staughton Lynd Alice Lynd Barbara Garson Clancy Sigal (writer) Dorothy Healey John Reed (journalist, "Ten Days that Shook the World") Gurley Flynn Bertell Ollman Kari Kubby Sid Lens (labor organizer, writer, leader in peace movement) Deborah Meier (well known in NYC area as a great school principal) George Orwell (born Eric Blair, author of "1984", "Animal Farm", etc...) Bertrand Russell Michael Moore (professional prankster) Carl Sandburg Charles Steinmetz (American engineer) Gil Green (a hero of the Spanish Civil War) Herbert Aptheker Grace Paley William Morris (British poet, designer, essayist, critic, and organizer) Oscar Wilde (British playwright, poet, essayist, satirist) Vachel Lindsay (American poet) Henry George (economist) Will Geer (Grandpa on "The Waltons") John Sayles (filmmaker) James Farmer (CORE) Max Eastman Crystal Eastman Abraham Cahan Side: Socialists are intelligent
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