Have I misunderstood socialism?

[Rev. Rye]

I'm not a socialist. I am and independent. I espouse ideas from both sides, but I do lean left, especially socially. As far as I know, the only "socialist" on the forums is Bozo.

Well, I tend to consider myself a socialist insofar as I believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to benefit from a country's wealth, and that people should be free to make as much as they want as long as the wealthy treat those below them fairly. I agree with Dotards's post, but I admit that I'm not really that knowledgeable about economics.

And by the way, about the affirmative action question: I am personally against it, because I believe that, if at all possible (I'm not entirely sure if it is), racism should be eliminated by eliminating the idea of race, and I think that the fact that the Human Genome Project showed no genes for race might do far more for decreasing racism than electing a half-black man for president. Here's an interesting thing, when I was doing a paper on Neo-Nazi movements for a sociology class, I made myself read the Turner Diaries (personal verdict: Tie with "Left Behind" for worst book ever due to its combination of competent prose and its theme of "Can I haz genocide now" [as opposed to LB's horrible writing and comparatively mild aesops]), and one logic bomb of a passage I found in it included a scene where it is mentioned that Jews are inherently better at business than White people (I'm not even going into the nebulousness of their definitions of "white"), but simply because they're Jewish, they will have to have their jobs done by less competent whites. Yes, they're pretty much putting the same system of race-based inequality in Job Hiring that their forerunners did.