Correction, Please!
How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders? Very!
Item: A front-page article in the Washington Post for March 3 attempted to draw parallels between the “populist pair” Bernie Sanders, a “democratic socialist” who is running for president, and President Donald Trump. They are both, said the paper, “reframing” American politics (while acknowledging that their “goals” do differ). The emphasis of the article was on Sanders.
Said the left-wing Post: “For Sanders, whose movement is based in economic inequality, the culprits are the financial elite, billionaires and chief executives who have succeeded while workers have either been laid off or watched their wages stagnate in an economy where costs are otherwise rising…. The tenets of the Sanders platform follow suit: enacting a Medicare-for-all government healthcare system, steep new taxes on ‘the billionaire class,’ free college for all Americans and sharp cutbacks in U.S. military interventions overseas — a fundamental expansion of the role of government in the United States.”
Item: Writing in the New York Times for February 13, radical economist Paul Krugman penned a piece called “Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist.” He began with a shot at the Right, saying: “Republicans have a long, disreputable history of conflating any attempt to improve American lives with the evils of ‘socialism.’”
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