In the long ago days when, as John Powers noted, the Left was joyous, Lefties were able to ascribe the lack of productivity even then an observable characteristic of socialism to its superior morality. Socialism depends, they said, on people being willing to cooperate, to work for the good of others. By contrast, capitalism's motivator is human greed. Of course, one man's greed is another man's self-interest--they've loaded the argument. And, as Paul Newman, one of The Nation's stockholders, can attest...more
