In between.

I am currently reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and came across a quote from Eugene Debs that I quite liked:

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society--we are on the eve of a universal change.

While I won't go so far as to declare myself a socialist (perhaps a compromising socio-capitalist?), I do feel like some of the solutions to the issues facing our nation (and humanity for that matter) can only be found by policies that consider the greater good of society more important than the good of individual citizens. I sometimes wonder how "socialism" and "communism" became such ugly words in the US, the roots of the words and the ideas they represent lie in society and community.