By Kevin Grout–
Last week, a student submitted an opinion piece to this newspaper extoling the virtues of socialism. Although he admitted the evils committed during the twentieth century in the name of socialism, he contended that we fundamentally do not understand what the term means. I’m here to say this: we know what socialism is, we’ve seen its effects and we want none of it.
I understand that the author of the previous opinion attempted to make a distinction between the socialism practiced by Joseph Stalin and the “democratic” socialism of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).