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By Victor Wallis.
The dominant tendency in US political rhetoric is to view socialism not
as the dissolution of capitalist class-relations, but rather as an
expansion of the scope of government. A favorite strategy of those –
like Bernie Sanders – whose proposals are attacked as being socialist is
to respond by denouncing billionaires as benefiting, via government
subsidies, from so-called “corporate socialism” or “socialism for the rich.”
Socialism is thus equated with government subsidies rather than with an
alternative vision of society. While the privately owned banks and
corporations are attacked for their hypocrisy and their special
advantages, there is no assertion that such icons of capitalist power
should cease to exist.
Similarly, the target of attack, in Sanders’ rhetoric, is not the
capitalist class but rather the “billionaire class.” Capitalism as such
escapes the blame.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/18/the-socialist-specter-in-present-day-us-politics/
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