As a lifelong democratic socialist I knew about Bernie Sanders when he was a more militant socialist than he is today. Way back in 1980 I was a presidential elector for the Socialist Workers Party in Rhode Island ( along with A.Gagne ) when this same Bernie Sanders was a presidential elector for the Socialist Workers Party in Vermont .
As for the history of socialism in the United States there is nearly a state of complete amnesia. The SWP - for all its flaws past and present - denounced totalitarian STALINISM way back in 1929 - after Leon Trotsky's exile. True enough that middle class " democracy " in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution never had a chance. Yes, today " socialist " Bernie is lot closer to FDR than to Lenin and Trotsky. And so am I . TRUTH is hidden by " Darkness Visible " in the FAKE NEWS mainstream news media .
All over the world you will never convince the vast majority of working class people that there is something inherently wicked about the very idea of SOCIALISM .
Could American capitalism survive an honest referendum ?
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