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Posted on 02/10/2020 12:22:46 PM PST by karpov
Since Bernie Sanders burst onto the mainstream political scene in 2016, a debate has raged amongst both his supporters and critics regarding where his true political allegiances lie. Many critics argue that the senator from Vermont is a devoted communist. His supporters will dismiss this as right-wing slander, stating that Sanders is a self-proclaimed “Democratic Socialist!”
Only a few days ago, Newsweek published a piece titled “Bernie Sanders Is A Democratic Socialist Not A Communist, Here’s the Difference” which perfectly demonstrated the Left’s blind acceptance of the senator’s ideological self-declaration, instead focusing on the definitional differences between communism and socialism.
Dr. Eileen Hunt Botting told Newsweek that Democratic socialism "aims to use democratic government to promote a more fair and egalitarian distribution of social goods and opportunities among all people in a society,” and that “Sanders, like Elizabeth Warren, is far closer to Scandinavia than to Venezuela on his democratic socialist proposals, such as 'Medicare for all.'"
Bernie Sanders and his supporters are well practised in using Scandinavia to justify their growing list of demands, often applying the attributes of Nordic countries in support of their definition of “socialism.” The fact that the free-market success of these countries was actually negatively impacted by so-called “democratic socialist” policies is a detail they prefer to ignore.
The problem here is that too many are willing to accept Bernie Sanders’ recent “democratic socialist” rebrand without question, allowing Sanders to stand on the shoulders of Scandanavian capitalism to laud an ideology which would drag such societies into ruin. If we scratch beneath the surface of the kooky Brooklynite, we find an ideology completely indistinguishable from communism.
Communism is a political theory deriving from Marxism which calls for class warfare
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You know the socialists have gone communist when the killing starts.
Socialist = Communist
Lenin himself said that socialism was a stepping stone to communism.
Lenin is somebody Bernie admires, along with Castro, Chavez, Maduro, Morales, etc.
South and Central Americans are prone to socialism, that’s why it was so important to the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) to import them in large numbers.
The communists in the old USSR had no problem with killing, on massive scales over long periods of time.
The goal of socialism is communism.....
... a distinction without a difference.
The useful idiot supporters/sympathizers of the instigators are also evil.
Here is all the economics that you need to know. It is contained in the Jaycee Creed: “We believe that economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise.”
Hey Bernie, how did that national socialism work out in 1930’s Germany?
FDR started the Democrats off with his agenda of human minority experiments. The Democrats should be tearing down FDR monuments if they knew how he destroyed their lives.
A socialist is a communist without a gun.
Sanders has a history of supporting authoritarian, socialist (i.e., communist) regimes. The “democratic socialist” label is just a transparent fig leaf.
From a February 3rd Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Elliot Kaufman:
“During half a century in public life, Mr. Sanders has dependably denounced ‘oligarchy’ and proclaimed himself a ‘democratic socialist.’ But his definition of the term has radically changed. Last year he said his goal was ‘an economy in which you have wealth being created by the private sector, but you have a fair distribution of that wealth.’ He added: ‘I think that countries like Denmark and Sweden do very well.’
He had a different vision in the 1970s, when he sought statewide office four times as the nominee of the Liberty Union Party of Vermont. Campaigning for U.S. Senate in 1971, he demanded the nationalization of utilities. In 1973 he proposed a federal takeover of ‘the entire energy industry,’ and in 1974 he wanted a 100% tax on all income above $1 million. In 1976 he asserted that workers needed to ‘take immediate control of the economy if we are to survive’ and called for ‘public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries.’ He had a plan for ‘public control over capital.’ As late as 1987 he asserted that ‘democracy means public ownership of the major means of production.’ “
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A person advocating socialism is like a pedophile coaxing a child into the car with him with a piece of candy. Once the child gets into the car, the rules and tone abruptly changes.
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