Thanks so much for the kind words and your well thought out response Hive account@wallabra! :-) I really appreciate it.

I agree with most you're saying, except that I have no qualms calling myself a Marxist or socialist. However broadly those terms are interpreted, any move in their direction is beneficial. Libertarianism and anarchism both are rooted in the leftist and Marxist movements, so I have no trouble with "libertarian socialist", as long as the ownership you're speaking of is collective (democratic) ownership; private ownership is exactly capitalism's greatest fault, and is exactly what socialism rejects. That's my two cents in any case :-)