Bernie Sanders "I am a socialist."
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Politics Stack Exchange answerers cite it as primary-source evidence that Bernie Sanders openly self-identified as a socialist.
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What it is
A 45-second clip from a 1989 television interview in which Bernie Sanders calls himself a socialist and says his personal goal is to help found a third party. It was uploaded by the channel PubliusIX as a short archival excerpt.
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Cites user4012 · 2017-04 · Politics Stack Exchange · on “Is communism rising in the west?”
It depends somewhat on how one defines socialism and communism (and the problem is, most people don't even have a good definition, conflating the two; and also conflating things like social-democracy). Overall, yes it is on the rise. First, let's look at political success (most of my answer's focus is USA, not "West" in general) of self-identified socialists. In 2016 US Democratic Primaries, a VERY large minority of the party supported Bernie Sanders, who openly described himself as "Socialist" [this video] (yes, technically speaking his views aren't entirely socialist and more social-democrat, but very few people are politically-nerdy enough to make fine distinctions like that). Matter of fact,
Cites Valorum · 2019-02 · Politics Stack Exchange · on “Why is it that Bernie Sanders is always called a "socialist"?”
It seems likely that people call him a socialist because he's self-identified as one on multiple occasions. [this video] and When he first won election to the House in 1990, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) embraced his political identity. " I am a socialist and everyone knows that, " Sanders said, responding to an ad that tried to link him to the regime of Fidel Castro. Washington Post: Bernie Sanders is an avowed socialist. 52 percent of Democrats are OK with that. [LINK] etc.
Cites user26266 · 2019-04 · Politics Stack Exchange · on “Why is it that Bernie Sanders is always called a "socialist"?”
I'm actually going to go against the general consensus here, but please hear me out. I believe that Sanders is an actual socialist. He wants the US to catch up with the rest of the developed world first but wants socialism as his end goal. This kind of ideology is called reformism [LINK] . Also, a reminder that socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned and regulated by the community as a whole, rather than by private individuals. Early Career: In this Guardian interview [LINK] , Sanders talks about the impact that the moving of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles had on his Poli