ZZZ Bolchevik Bernie again gives speech suggesting division along race, religion, sexual orientation

[shockedcanadian]

He gives commencement speech at Brooklyn College Covers the usual generic categories that the alt-left and socialists use to go after capitalism and Conservatives, feigns outrage at the imaginary attacks against people of all faith, sexual orientation, gender, National Orgin (WTF does this mean? Is he running for a seat at the UN?), yadda yadda.

Why doesn't Robin Hood move to Canada and see how great it is here. He wouldn't last a week even with so many adoring bankrupt socialist pals here. I pray these kids don't listen to this sage advice, unless they like participation ribbons.


Watch Replay: Bernie Sanders Blasts 1 Percent, 'Demagogues' At Brooklyn College Graduation

"We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender or by sexual orientation," Sanders said to loud cheers from the audience.

He then rattled off his usual laundry list of grievances — the rich are getting richer, prisons are filling up, women's rights are under attack.

Still, Sanders said, he sees hope in future generations.

"You know, and I know that these are tough times in our country," Sanders said. "But looking out at the beautiful people in front of me, I have enormous confidence in the future of our country."

 

[DOTR]

 

[The Irish Ram]

Maybe the socialist can sell a couple of his houses and sports cars to give us all the free stuff...

 

[JimBowie1958]

He gives commencement speech at Brooklyn College Covers the usual generic categories that the alt-left and socialists use to go after capitalism and Conservatives, feigns outrage at the imaginary attacks against people of all faith, sexual orientation, gender, National Orgin (WTF does this mean? Is he running for a seat at the UN?), yadda yadda.

Why doesn't Robin Hood move to Canada and see how great it is here. He wouldn't last a week even with so many adoring bankrupt socialist pals here. I pray these kids don't listen to this sage advice, unless they like participation ribbons.


Watch Replay: Bernie Sanders Blasts 1 Percent, 'Demagogues' At Brooklyn College Graduation

"We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender or by sexual orientation," Sanders said to loud cheers from the audience.

He then rattled off his usual laundry list of grievances — the rich are getting richer, prisons are filling up, women's rights are under attack.

Still, Sanders said, he sees hope in future generations.

"You know, and I know that these are tough times in our country," Sanders said. "But looking out at the beautiful people in front of me, I have enormous confidence in the future of our country."

I like Sanders and I agree with him on most economic issues as he advances Nordic Socialism, not Marxism.

 

[DOTR]

I like Sanders and I agree with him on most economic issues as he advances Nordic Socialism, not Marxism.

Karl Marx is the author of socialism right? Thus "marxism"?

 

[janet88]

I like Sanders optimism of seeing hope in future.
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[JimBowie1958]

I like Sanders and I agree with him on most economic issues as he advances Nordic Socialism, not Marxism.

Karl Marx is the author of socialism right? Thus "marxism"?

No, actually, socialism was around for a lot longer than when Marx jumped in.

Socialism - Wikipedia

Socialist models and ideas espousing common or public ownership have existed since antiquity. It has been claimed, though controversially, that there were elements of socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers Plato[61] and Aristotle.[62] Mazdak, a Persian communal proto-socialist,[63] instituted communal possessions and advocated the public good. Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī, a Companion of Prophet Muhammad, is credited by many as a principal antecedent of Islamic socialism.[64][65][66][67][68] In the period right after the French Revolution, activists and theorists like François-Noël Babeuf, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Philippe Buonarroti, and Auguste Blanqui influenced the early French labour and socialist movements.[69] In Britain, Thomas Paine proposed a detailed plan to tax property owners to pay for the needs of the poor in Agrarian Justice[70]while Charles Hall wrote The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States, denouncing capitalism's effects on the poor of his time[71] which influenced the utopian schemes of Thomas Spence.[72]

The first "self-conscious socialist movements developed in the 1820s and 1830s. The Owenites, Saint-Simonians and Fourierists provided a series of coherent analyses and interpretations of society. They also, especially in the case of the Owenites, overlapped with a number of other working-class movements like the Chartists in the United Kingdom."[73] The Chartists gathered significant numbers around the People's Charter of 1838, which demanded the extension of suffrage to all male adults. Leaders in the movement also called for a more equitable distribution of income and better living conditions for the working classes. "The very first trade unions and consumers’ cooperative societies also emerged in the hinterland of the Chartist movement, as a way of bolstering the fight for these demands."[74] A later important socialist thinker in France was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who proposed his philosophy of mutualism in which "everyone had an equal claim, either alone or as part of a small cooperative, to possess and use land and other resources as needed to make a living".[75] There were also currents inspired by dissident Christianity of Christian socialism "often in Britain and then usually coming out of left liberal politics and a romantic anti-industrialism"[69] which produced theorists such as Edward Bellamy, Frederick Denison Maurice, and Charles Kingsley.[76]

The first advocates of socialism favoured social levelling in order to create a meritocratic or technocratic society based on individual talent. Count Henri de Saint-Simon is regarded as the first individual to coin the term socialism.[77] Saint-Simon was fascinated by the enormous potential of science and technology and advocated a socialist society that would eliminate the disorderly aspects of capitalism and would be based on equal opportunities.[78][unreliable source?] He advocated the creation of a society in which each person was ranked according to his or her capacities and rewarded according to his or her work.[77] The key focus of Saint-Simon's socialism was on administrative efficiency and industrialism, and a belief that science was the key to progress.[79] This was accompanied by a desire to implement a rationally organised economy based on planning and geared towards large-scale scientific and material progress,[77] and thus embodied a desire for a more directed or planned economy. Other early socialist thinkers, such as Thomas Hodgkin and Charles Hall, based their ideas on David Ricardo's economic theories. They reasoned that the equilibrium value of commodities approximated prices charged by the producer when those commodities were in elastic supply, and that these producer prices corresponded to the embodied labour – the cost of the labour (essentially the wages paid) that was required to produce the commodities. The Ricardian socialists viewed profit, interest and rent as deductions from this exchange-value.[citation needed]

West European social critics, including Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Louis Blanc, Charles Hall, and Saint-Simon, were the first modern socialists who criticised the excessive poverty and inequality of the Industrial Revolution. They advocated reform, with some such as Robert Owen advocating the transformation of society to small communities without private property. Robert Owen's contribution to modern socialism was his understanding that actions and characteristics of individuals were largely determined by the social environment they were raised in and exposed to.[79] On the other hand, Charles Fourier advocated phalansteres which were communities that respected individual desires (including sexual preferences), affinities and creativity and saw that work has to be made enjoyable for people.[80] The ideas of Owen and Fourier were tried in practice in numerous intentional communities around Europe and the American continent in the mid-19th century.