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Socialist Progressives

Fantastic Anarchist

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1. What's really sad, though, is that the country has gone so far right ...

Reply to TBF (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2016, 09:16 AM

Feb 2016

... that they actually think Bernie is a socialist.

Bernie is a liberal. He's not a socialist, though I'm glad that he's getting the support he's getting even while calling himself a democratic socialist.

I've always wondered why people have to put the word "democratic" before socialist. Socialism is inherently democratic - or at least more so than the capitalist political economy.

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What's really sad, though, is that the country has gone so far right ... Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2016 #1

Agree on all points. nt TBF Feb 2016 #2