Sanders certainly isn't talking about workers taking control of the means of production, if that's what you mean. Sanders is a "socialist" in the same broad sense as the French Socialist Party and the German SPD and the British Labour Party and other affiliates of the Socialist International. He's a left-wing Social Democrat. If Bernie Sanders becomes President Bernie Sanders, the U.S. will remain a capitalist country. But the well-being of the majority of working families will markedly improve. Unions will be stronger, unemployment will be lower, poverty will be lesser, discrimination will be lesser, there will be more paid leave, more time off, more holidays. Even if that is not "socialism," is it not still a good idea?
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/23/15 7:33 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > It is remarkable, is it not, how Sanders has re-introduced a meaningful > > discussion of "socialism" to mainstream public discourse in the United > > States? > > I am glad you put socialism in scare quotes. Sanders is an > anti-austerity candidate, just like Corbyn. Eugene V. Debs, on the other > hand, was a socialist candidate. Someone like Jill Stein is also > anti-austerity but not socialist. I will vote for her because she makes > the link between austerity and the two-party system, the lynchpin of > class oppression in the USA. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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