Thank You, Slate.com

Finally, the grand history of "socialism" (i.e., a well-ordered market economy befitting of a civilized society) is getting its due:

http://www.slate.com/id/2202950/

It is proper and sane to fear revolutionary communism. It's just crass to side with certain 'true conservatives" drunk on strong words like "liberty" and "freedom" and who see trees rather than a forest, cows instead of a herd, intent like Greenspan to ignore repeated facts about human nature and live with delusional optimism about humans' capacity to self-regulate and be unswayed by greed and powerlust. Libertarianism of that stripe is like bizarro Taoism, with an invisible hand instead of a Way, where water somehow defies gravity and flows up the mountain, and where striving is the supreme virtue.

(can you see my fingers making the "word in quotes" gesture?)