The capitalist news media's shabby treatment of Senator Bernie
Sanders of Vermont-more socialist Democrat than democratic
Socialist-should not surprise Bernie Sanders at all. The American ruling
class has been marginalizing anti-capitalist ideas for more than a
century.Oddly enough, a socialist -progressive movement -now associated
with the titan Eugene V. Debs-was a not to be ignored political force in
this country a century ago.But the movement must have had its pulse on
the world historical Zeitgeist because in Russia in 1917 the
revolutionary Bolsheviks-led by Lenin and Trotsky- seized state power.
The American ruling class was terrified by the specter of Socialism in
this country. When the Soviet Union collapsed from its inner
contradictions in 1991 they imagined that the capitalist way of life must
be a permanent condition of humanity, a bizarre reflection of Absolute
Reason in an Ayn Rand utopia.
The Socialist Truth-meekly
represented by Bernie Sanders-denies both the sanity and the humanity
of global capitalism.And there is nothing more subversive than the
truth.
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