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Bernie Sanders is effectively indicting the political economic structure in which the super-rich have amassed extraordinary sums of wealth at the expense of everyone else — and our shared planet.
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
In some ways, many of America’s CEOs are like closet socialists whose corporations offer a working model for what a socialist United States could look like.
Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
Winning isn’t everything. Bernie Sanders has had a profound effect on the Democratic Party.
“Socialist” has been a dirty word in American politics for decades – so why does socialism suddenly seem alive and well?
Sanders is not a socialist. And Denmark is not a utopian ideal to which Americans should aspire. Here’s why.
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