{"id":14898,"date":"2020-11-17T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T02:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2020-11-18T20:36:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T01:36:23","slug":"if-america-became-socialist-would-that-infringe-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/11\/17\/if-america-became-socialist-would-that-infringe-on-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"If America became Socialist, would that infringe on democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No. Most forms of socialism are perfectly compatible with democracy. Lots of Americans assume all socialism is like Stalinist Russia, and it&#8217;s just not true. Here are a few thoughts on that from the Democratic Socialists of America: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-dsa\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-dsa<\/a>, and here are some things from the library on the topic: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-dsa2\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-dsa2<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Most forms of socialism are perfectly compatible with democracy. Lots of Americans assume all socialism is like Stalinist Russia, and it&#8217;s just not true. Here are a few thoughts on that from the Democratic Socialists of America: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-dsa, and here are some things from the library on the topic: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-dsa2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14928,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions\/14928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}