tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post5977788124288104725..comments2024-03-18T10:37:21.350-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: Bernie Sanders most popular American politicianUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-55413783240653325272017-04-23T07:59:48.910-04:002017-04-23T07:59:48.910-04:00Defenders of the status quo can relax: the spectre...Defenders of the status quo can relax: the spectre threatening to haunt the 2020 election is not that of communism but, at worst, social democracy, as espoused by Bernie Sanders. Marx and Engels, by contrast, wanted something rather different: 'in place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all' (Communist Manifesto, 1848). Nothing like this exists, or has existed. The old lie about Russia being socialist or communist (Marx and Engels used the terms interchangeably) – and later, China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc – was identified remarkably early: in the August 1918 edition of the Socialist Standard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-68076593996162535972017-04-23T07:48:19.824-04:002017-04-23T07:48:19.824-04:00And he's still sheepdogging for the Dems.
Sand...And he's still sheepdogging for the Dems.<br />Sanders could leverage that popularity to advance authentic change, but he isn't really. A prominent and popular figure as he has now become can actually get away with emphasizing and brandishing his status as a true Independent, but he does not. The Democratic Party uses and exploits him, it's not the other way around. His function is to bring outsiders and third party advocates into the Democratic Party, not to bring the Democratic Party closer to the outsiders and third parties. His has been a disappointing, though not surprising, effort. From the outset his campaign was closely linked and tied to the mainstream Democratic Party. Their operatives dominated and controlled the operation, there to make sure that those feelin' the Bern would never get past much of a simmer. It's more or less worked. <br />And on it continues... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com