Old Whine From Old Jugs

I haven't changed a single position.

I'm a radical leveler and an egalitarian democrat. 

I believe that other than a small, reasonable one-time return on invested money in addition to repayment of any money lent, that should end any claim to the ownership of the means of production on the part of money lenders.   Workers, who produce all of the wealth of any company, are the ones who should be considered to have an ownership stake in businesses and are the rightful owners of any wealth produced by their labor.  

I believe the existence of billionaires and multi-millionaires are enough of a danger to democracy that they should be taxed down to the same level as the rest of us, that wealth used for the common good of us all. 

etc.

But the word "socialist" has been so damaged through associations with Nazism, Marxism, Fabianism, various and sundry ideologies around dictators and mass murderers, the ravings of lunatics, etc. not the least of which are many who call themselves "social-democrats" or "democratic-socialists," that I won't use the word to describe myself anymore. 

Any word you have to continually qualify to separate yourself from the major genocidal ideologies of the 20th century is a word that should be junked.  Maybe I'll call myself a "leveler" more or an "egalitarian democrat".