Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Flashback: Comrade Bernie Sanders: ' Nobody should earn more than $1 million.' .... 'I believe that, in the long run, major industries in this state and nation should be publicly owned and controlled by the workers themselves'


Flashback Politico reports on the goals of Comrade Sanders:
And Sanders has long been unabashed about his socialist beliefs. “Nobody should earn more than $1 million,” he told the Burlington Free Press in 1974.

“I believe that, in the long run, major industries in this state and nation should be publicly owned and controlled by the workers themselves,” he wrote in 1976.

While statements like these might be a skeleton in another candidate’s closet, Sanders has never renounced socialism, even if his brand of it has become more moderate. “Do they think I’m afraid of the word? I’m not afraid of the word,” Sanders said of the term “socialist” in an interview with The Nation on Monday.
The enemies of the system of free enterprise, as the late Joseph Schumpeter would say...