03-12-2016, 02:02 PM
I'm not totally convinced of this
On the right they argue that Sanders is a Marxist. This is nonsense, Sanders want to change the US into Denmark, not the Soviet Union. But does Hillary want to change the US into Denmark? Does a majority of the US people?
Quote:No one could have expected that the current presidential campaign would feature not one but two candidates who resemble in some ways and might be considered Marxists, one of a traditional kind, the other a more modern version. The traditional one, Bernie Sanders, is a self-described democratic socialist but all his emotional rhetoric and compassionate indignation at the inequities in American society is related to what Karl Marx wrote regarding the concentration of capital and the banking system and the contradictions in the capitalist mode of production. That indignation was evident as a young man when Sanders spent a few months in a left-wing Israeli kibbutz as the guest of the Hashomer Hatzair youth, normally regarded as a progressive Zionist movement. The anger at those capitalist contradictions, and the unfair nature of American society, mostly manifested in and epitomized as “Wall Street” remains in the older 74-year-old Bernie, the advocate of the redistribution of wealth who believes in the desirability of socialism, though he might differ somewhat from Karl Marx who argued that capitalism was a historical and progressive (sic) stage on the way to socialism. The passion of Sanders is more agreeable and admired than is his analysis of political and economic reality.Marx comes to the American Presidential Elections
On the right they argue that Sanders is a Marxist. This is nonsense, Sanders want to change the US into Denmark, not the Soviet Union. But does Hillary want to change the US into Denmark? Does a majority of the US people?