Anti-Capitalism, Bernie Sanders, and the Democratic Party

American Thinker ^ | June 3, 2016 | Jeffrey Ludwig

[Kaslin]

While interviewing Bernie Sanders on "Meet The Press" on October 11, 2015 Chuck Todd asked the following question: “Are you a capitalist?” Bernie answered “No. I’m a democratic socialist.” To properly understand his answer, it is helpful to go back 104 years to the candidacy of Eugene V. Debs who, in 1912, ran for president on the Socialist Party ticket. In that election, there were four candidates for President: William Howard Taft (Republican), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), Woodrow Wilson (Democrat), and Eugene V. Debs (Socialist).

On some of the platform planks, there was an overlap between the Socialists and the Progressives. Because of that overlap, in recent years, the left-wing communist and socialist hard core of the Democratic Party began calling themselves “Progressives,” as part of the grand scheme of cultural Marxist dissembling whereby they lay claim to the all-American idealism of Theodore Roosevelt. The idea is to appear fair-minded and to pretend that one does not identify with the International Workers of the World or the extreme goals of Eugene Debs and other traitors.

[dontreadthis]

Summarizing:
Socialists are liars, progressives are better liars

[familyop]

And Sanders is the only politician admitting that he’s a socialist?

[Kaslin]

I always read the readers comments. The first one is really good check it out.

[dontreadthis]

yes, good case for magic, or more accurately black magic, but that would not be PC.
I like the comments too, often insightful and sometimes easier to read than the article itself.

[SkyDancer]

Just thinking what America will be like if either Hillary or Bernie win the WH. Woe the Republic.

[Kaslin]

I shudder to think about.

[Elsie]

Letter to the editor, found in an old 1950’s newspaper...

I’ve heard that soon America will legalize ripping the babies from mothers wombs.

Woe the Republic.

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

May Day and International Communist Womens’ Day are both celebrated in America now.

Call out th Commies in corporate America.

[Koracan]

No End without a Beginning:::

..Cultural Marxism

..The Frankfurt School

..Cultural Marxism began not in the 1960s but in 1919, immediately after World War I.

..Antonio Gramsci...he wrote 'prison notebooks'

...cultural hegemony

He was the first to suggest that the application of psychology to break the traditions, beliefs, morals, and will of a people could be accomplished quietly and without the possibility of resistance.

...an adjustment from original Karl Marx, [who called for an open revolt from the Proletariat, e.g. 1917 Russian revolution].

...He deduced that "The civilized world had been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2,000 years..."
and a culture based on this religion could only be captured from within.

...multiculturalism is a tool to destroy Nation States

In 1933, the members of the Frankfurt School fled to the United States.
... While here, they migrated to major U.S. universities (Columbia, Princeton, Brandeis, and California at Berkeley)

...Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

....attempting to engineer the collapse of the West using multiculturalism and political correctness as their methods

They were the forebears of what some proclaim as 'cultural Marxism,' a radical social movement that has transformed American culture. It is more commonly known today as 'political correctness.'