There are fierce counter concerns over growth of anti-capitalist and pro-socialist sentiment and the upsurge in the class struggle of which socialists are the initial beneficiary. The financial oligarchy is incensed and frightened by socialists’ calls for modest increases in taxes, socialist talk of free education, ending private health insurance / safeguarding basic citizen services and reining in the profits of the pharmaceutical giants, and socialist appeals to popular anger over the staggering levels of social inequality.
