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?

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