For purposes of initiating and building mass resistance to capitalism and the capitalist state it would be useful to just forget that the word "socialism" exists. It is far to useful a label for those who (in Black Agenda's words) represent The More Effective Evil. For I do not know of a single "Socialist Party" that has offered any real resistance to capitalism, while the label serves to draw resistance movements to their death in the arms of the DP.
Sanders is a serious enemy to anti-capitalist mobilization, or even to any real struggle for the mildest reforms. Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Murray Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 11:22 AM To: PEN-L Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist Capitalist > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > From: [email protected] > "I think Bernie Sanders's use of the word 'socialism' is causing much > more confusion than it is adding value," said Lane Kenworthy, a > professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego. Mr. > Kenworthy, who recently wrote a book called "Social Democratic America" > and thinks about these sorts of things for a living, offered a > suggestion: "He is, if you want to put it this way, a democratic > socialist capitalist." =============== So is Bernie closer to Warren Buffett or Mark Tushnet? Not in a personal sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tushnet _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
