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« Reply #25 on: February 16, 2010, 10:32:24 AM »
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Quote from: PiT (The Physicist) on February 15, 2010, 05:25:16 PM
Quote from: KeeptheChange on February 15, 2010, 04:41:43 PM
It's true.  Sanders caucuses with the Democrat Party but he is actually registered as a Socialist.  Which should speak volumes to the people of Vermont and America about what the Democrat agenda really is...

     Bernie Sanders caucuses with a Thai party? I wonder what other nations he's caucusing with parties from.

Especially surprising he caucuses with a conservative Thai party!

The Democrats are more like a Liberal party - right wing on economic issues but not at all on social issues.
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« Reply #26 on: February 16, 2010, 10:56:36 AM »
Quote from: Lief on February 15, 2010, 03:26:21 PM
Er, a social-democrat, yes. I've never heard him advocate for a proletarian revolution.

"Socialism" is very broad term. For me it's Democratic Socialism. Yes, Sanders is a Democratic Socialist and I guess he openly declared in these words.
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« Reply #27 on: February 16, 2010, 11:07:54 AM »
No way, he is just a Social-Democrat.
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« Reply #28 on: February 16, 2010, 06:05:36 PM »

Yes. Democratic socialist usually denotes people of the Melenchon-Lafontaine type. Sanders isn't like Melenchon.
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« Reply #29 on: February 16, 2010, 06:16:58 PM »
Quote from: Coburn In 2012 on February 16, 2010, 03:59:42 AM
He is an out of the closet Socialist but his views are more like Communist.

Hmm...You mean he goes around advocating worker ownership of the means of production and the abolition of private property?  You'd think that that'd have gotten around by now.  Maybe because he doesn't say that.

The poor word communism...so mistreated.  It has a very specific meaning, people.
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« Reply #30 on: February 16, 2010, 06:26:48 PM »
Quote from: The Mikado on February 16, 2010, 06:16:58 PM
Quote from: Coburn In 2012 on February 16, 2010, 03:59:42 AM
He is an out of the closet Socialist but his views are more like Communist.

Hmm...You mean he goes around advocating worker ownership of the means of production and the abolition of private property?  You'd think that that'd have gotten around by now.  Maybe because he doesn't say that.

The poor word communism...so mistreated.  It has a very specific meaning, people.

Meaning of word "socialism" is rather broad fellows. There is thing like Democratic Socialism, and Sanders declared himself these words.
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« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2016, 05:29:28 PM »
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« Reply #32 on: November 13, 2016, 02:23:11 PM »
No, he's an overt socialist.  He called himself one.
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« Reply #33 on: November 14, 2016, 12:51:44 AM »
Quote from: Oldiesfreak1854 on November 13, 2016, 02:23:11 PM
No, he's an overt socialist.  He called himself one.
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« Reply #34 on: November 14, 2016, 03:18:46 AM »
I think he's more left-wing then he entails, as he wast part of liberty union,a radical left-wing party. He was part of a socialist party in his youth, so I think he moderated his positions to be elected, and that is why he probably calls himself democratic socialism rather than social democrat, a hardening of his actual socialistic positions of his youth. He honey-mooned in the Soviet Union, no?
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