. . Subject: Obama is a socialist ?! . . . . . That is what some Americans are saying, using the word 'socialist' for all forms of nationalization; this definition of the word is probably a fabrication of the American capitalist ruling class as part of their assault against the people. It ties in with the false propaganda made by Stalin, Mao, and the like, who where really Monarchists. The better description is perhaps feudalism: Obama is a feudalist, because nationalization under a people hostile elitist class, effectively dictatorships, is what we had under the feudal system. Nationalized industries at the behest of the feudal ruling class. The Baron, for example, could rule the wood mills and carpet workplaces, by use of the army, true ? It is also a form of nationalization, negative nationalization. Since the free market is crushed more and more while capitalism festers to its ultimate total-control point of change, markets getting impacted by direct orders from a ruling class who maintain power through control of a set of cartels and corrupting Government, this resembles and gravitates to a feudal set up. Obama meanwhile is of course merely the latest mascott of the American ruling class its most sinister parts. The Americans are often saying, quite rightly (more urgent in an Empire) that "free markets are good for the people," which is saying "free markets are socialist." Of course they made the big mistake in thinking that free markets are the magical cure for everything, but that isn't true, evidenced by how they build an Empire and now experience its apparent collapse. Obama, or the American ruling class that swept him to power, are not socialist, they are capitalists, the most powerful of them may have become feudalists because that is the logical next step of total control after capitalism has festered to become feudalism. The drive to unify all production under one capitalist eventually rots through turning capitalism into feudalism. Some Americans call that socialism, but it isn't social it is anti-social. --