Left out: Bernie glosses over left-wing authoritarianism

By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 12:36pm |

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/what-bernie-sanderss-socialism-speech-ignored/591547/

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Love it that in his first paragraph, the writer has laid out some major bonafides to make the accusation, that he knows the syndrome when he sees it:

All four of my grandparents were sent to prison for their socialist convictions at some point in the 1920s or 1930s. When I was growing up in Europe, democratic countries from France to Italy were ruled by self-declared socialists. As a young activist in the Jusos, the youth organization of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, I sang along wholeheartedly when my comrades would intone “The Internationale” at the end of rallies, rounding off each rendition with a loud shout of “Long live socialism and liberty!”

Given my background, I am baffled by both the fear and the fascination that the socialist label now evokes in the United States [....]

by artappraiser on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 3:06pm

Left out: Bernie glosses over left-wing authoritarianism

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