Very phony " socialist " Bernie Sanders

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  Can any politically literate democratic socialist anywhere on the planet take Democrat Bernie Sanders seriously as a leader of some SOCIALIST movement  ?  Yesterday at the surreal Democratic National Convention Sanders said that the future of " OUR democracy " and the future of " OUR economy " was at stake in the 2020 election .

                 A  Lenin or a Trotsky - Karl Marx and Engels themselves - could only speak scathingly of BOURGEOIS democracy and CAPITALIST economy as it has existed since the Industrial Revolution.

                      Even American socialist Eugene V. Debs ridiculed our plutocracy controlled TWO PARTY SYSTEM more than a century ago . Read his  " Canton Speech " where he condemned both the First World War and Democratic Party of Woodrow Wilson .

        " Black Lives Matter " activists have much to learn from old socialist classics : " The Communist Manifesto " , " The State and Revolution " ( Lenin ) , " The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State "( Engels ).  They should read or re-read " The Autobiography of Malcolm X ".

              How can they possibly end racism within the economic structure of capitalism ?   Both  Black Muslim Malcolm X and civil rights leader Martin Luther King made a connection between racism and capitalism , between racism and American imperialism . No surprise that they were both assassinated.

        My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker "  .

      For more than four years the Democratic Party - a disgrace for any principled SOCIALIST- has promoted the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism ( while Trump and the Republicans promote a new " Yellow Peril ").

      Recall Malcolm X 's friend ( then Cassius Clay ) said back in 1965 opposing the military draft and the criminal Vietnam War : " No Vietcong ever called me [ N-Word ] .

            Learning a little history will much enlighten rather muddle -headed  " Black Lives Matter " activists today .   What is still very progressive in the USA are public libraries. READ !