Bernie is a social democrat, more to the right then the social democrats in other countries.
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1. " [At] the University of Chicago,
Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He also organized for a communist front,the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
2. ...graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where
he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda.There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.”
Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist | New York Post
That all happened many years ago. I can show you reagan's liberal past.
‘Michael Harrington, co-chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America and author of ''The Other America,'' which helped to encourage the Federal Government's War on Poverty,…
Mr. Harrington was probably the most visible spokesman for Socialist ideals in the United States. He often served as the American representative at international Democratic Socialist meetings….he outlined a socialist future that could create a new, progressive society. He said that it must be international; that tax policies should redistribute wealth and increase growth without ''takeover games''; that real control must come from below, and that ''the inexorable
socialization of the entire planet'' can become ''the tool, rather than the oppressor, of free women and men.''
Asked in an interview how his
brand of socialism differed from the system that had evolved in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Mr. Harrington said:
''Put it this way.
Marx was a democrat with a small d. The Democratic Socialists envision a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism and racial equality. I share an immediate program with liberals in this country because the best liberalism leads toward socialism. I'm a radical, but as I tell my students at Queens, I try not to soapbox. I want to be on the left wing of the possible.''’
Michael Harrington, Socialist and Author, Is Dead