Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein (1949)

>Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition. Since, under present circumstances, free and unhindered discussion of these problems has come under a powerful taboo, I consider the foundation of this magazine to be an important public service.

Typically socialists refuse to tackle problems of socialism in their papers and capitalists refuse to talk problems of capitalism in theirs.

Nordic countries where socialists and capitalists have been competing for power and correcting each others problems, and pragmatism has worked to overcome ism's seem to work well.