Tag: Socialism
An oddity of the Sanders phenomenon has been his obsessive need to lecture the public on the beauties of socialism.
Running as a democratic socialist who seeks to complete FDR’s agenda, Sanders straddles the border between social democracy and left liberalism.
Maybe we should set aside the contradictory and confusing debate over socialism, and instead discuss how to best improve the prospects of Americans.
“Socialism,” snarled Donald Trump at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of faithful Trumpistas snarled back in unison: “So-shull-izz-ummm!” And there you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP’s ...
Hired gangsters used to beat up socialists and strikers on the streets -- and now Trump beats them up from the bully pulpit.
Reprinted by permission from Creators. Socialism has always been a tough sell in the United States. While socialist parties won substantial support in many Western countries over the course of the 20th century, they were ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't really a socialist. She's more of a social democrat common in Western democracies.
Bernie Sanders may be the country's best-known socialist, but he's certainly not the first socialist to run for president. That distinction belongs to Eugene Debs, a rural Ohioan who revolutionized American politics a century ago.
The major difference between the Debs era and what Bernie Sanders is dealing with now has less to do with socialism than it has to do with capitalism.
Trevor Noah and former CIA Director Michael Hayden discussed the complex moral issues of fighting against terrorism through the use of drone strikes.
