Yep, Clinton, Blair and others liked to call their "new" governing theory "The Third Way." They pushed this farce as a happy medium between socialism and unbridled free enterprise. The plan is for government to control private property for the glory and the good of the almighty state. This, of course, is nothing more than old European style fascism, another branch of the Marxist tree.
So I'm willing to add Savage's "soft communism" as a new branch to the goosestepper's tree.
But I still enjoy calling these liberals fascists. It really turns their noses red, especially when you give them the old seig heil salute.
I just thought of what a silly euphemism "soft communism" is. "Soft communism" is Socializm or, more precisely, a transition period for the introduction of Marxist principles to the proletariat before the inevitable final revolution that will sweep from power and lofty position the evils of the hated bourgeosie for all time.
I think all Savage meant was socializm with rock & roll and everybody fat, dumb and unhappy. Maybe that's it. That's our innovation. How to be communist when everybody is drunk and fat and has more clothes and toys than they know what to do with. Even the poor. How to keep them ginned up against the "Man" THEN?
I thought there was an older version of "The Third Way" that was Socializm itself, promoted as a "kinder & gentler" form of Communism, in the 1950s maybe, by people like Nasser, and Ghandi(?). Is this not true?