Clerk Note: Called to your reading attention, because too often well understood definitions of political words aren't well understood, nor is the direction the nation and world are heading.
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The Alternative to Fervent Nationalism Isn't Corporate Liberalism—It's Social Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/07/11/alternative-fervent-nationalism-isnt-corporate-liberalism-its-social-democracy
By: 2016-07-11
Date: Jake Johnson
In his 1946 essay reviewing former Trotskyist-turned-reactionary James Burnham's book The Managerial Revolution, George Orwell made several observations that resonate just as powerfully today as they did when they were first published.
"The real question," he wrote, "is not whether the people who wipe their boots on us during the next fifty years are to be called managers, bureaucrats, or politicians: the question is whether capitalism, now obviously doomed, is to give way to oligarchy or to true democracy."
Orwell recognized what many today fail to perceive: That free market capitalism is, in the words of Karl Polanyi, a "stark Utopia," a system that does not exist, and one that would not survive for long if it ever came into existence.
