At least they used to be honest

It's nice to see that at least during the Wilson administration they were honest about being socialist. I think that our great war with the Soviet Union has so corrupted the language; in that no party in United States will admit to being any sort of collectivist, that we have forever lost the language to argue about political positions as they really are. We seem to exist in an age of new speak, and as Orwell made so clear, the corruption of language is a method to corrupt thought and empower those who wish to rule us.

clipped from www.lewrockwell.com Bernard Baruch, chairman of Wilson's War Industries Board (and the son of a German who fled that country to avoid conscription) unflinchingly espoused the concept of state ownership of its subjects in an August 7, 1918 newspaper editorial: "Every man's life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man's property. We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is his only as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and possessions at the call of the state."