It seems that whatever President Obama talks about — whether it’s overhauling health care, or regulating Wall Street, or telling schoolchildren to study hard — his opponents have called him a socialist. “Socialism” was an epithet on many placards at protests in Washington over the weekend. What does the word mean today, nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall? What role has the label played in American political history?
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor, The Nation
Andrew Hartman, historian
Terence Ball, political scientist
Steven F. Hayward, scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Charles Dunn, professor of government
From the New York Times "Room for Debate" blog
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