"Socialism" Is A Scare Word

“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan 'Down With Socialism' on the banner of his 'great crusade,' that is really not what he means at all.”

--Harry S. Truman during a whistle-stop campaign speech in Syracuse, New York, on October 10, 1952.

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/

Don't Let Anyone Scare You About Socialism

Democratic Socialism is NOT Communism.

We already live in a partial Democratic Socialist society: your post office, your library, your fire department, your police department, your Medicare and Medicaid, all supported by tax payers who benefit from these services. This is Democratic Socialism which means political democracy with a socially owned economy.