How do you approach American socialism (beliefs)

[GeneCosta]

A multi-pronged question: how do you approach being socialist in the United States? The Cold War resentment towards anything even remotely associated with Karl Marx is still alive and kicking. What particular beliefs do you ascribe to - social democracy? Technocracy? Anarchism?

I take a multi-pronged approach towards a socialist economy, which would be comprised of:

- Mutualist principles (free, decentralized market)
- Communism

Piracy, freeware, and other internet inventions as well as all other forms of a gift economy compromise communism. I take a left-Rothbardian, quasi-Proudhanian (say that three times fast) towards the market. Government intervention is often done with recognition towards the big competitors. A truly free market is, I believe, inherently leftist. It would not be compromised of subsidies, corporate handouts, business personhood, copyrights, or even patents. Instead you would have competing firms which operate without shareholders. Workers would be able to organize into free associations. Any hierarchal firm would have to allot workers with a fair payment. Since worker co-ops are demonstrably superior in terms of alloted leisure time and productivity, sole proprietorships and partnerships can't extract a huge surplus. Workers could then just leave for another firm.