A genuine socialist believes that the civil government should own the means of production. This is what socialism has always meant. Today, there are virtually no people outside of North Korea, Latin America, and Zimbabwe who straightforwardly argue in favor of socialism. Obama is not a socialist. The Democrats are not socialists, and you won't hear Bernie Sanders call for the nationalization of America's corporations. Socialism is dead as an ideology and also as a political movement. It's an example of a god that failed This is from Ron Paul's Facebook account Dec 14