Sanders Comes to Save Capitalism, Not Destroy It

One of the most tiresomely stupid features of American discourse is all the fools screaming “communism, socialism, communism, USSR!”

Bernie Sanders is not a communist. He is not going to destroy capitalism.

In fact, the Marxists I follow often hate him, the way they hated FDR, because Sanders’ actual goal is to save capitalism from its own flaws–or if you want to go Marxist, from its internal contradictions. Capitalism concentrates capital, and when it does that too much, it is subject to crises. The last really big one was the Great Depression.

FDR saved capitalism. The alternatives, the people who lost, like the actual communists, know that and have never forgiven him–just like oligarchs have never forgiven him for breaking their predecessors’ power for two generations.



Yes, Sanders will regulate, and he’ll bring more of the economy under government control or management, and he’ll tax and break up conglomerates, and none of that will destroy capitalism. It will, in fact, make capitalism healthier.

All Sanders wants to do is give Americans the 50s economy back, with universal healthcare and less sexism, racism, pollution, and imperialism.

Bernie isn’t anything even close to a radical, and it takes a massively degraded and stupid discourse to pretend he is.

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