King is a leading spokesman for the Civil Rights movement in America. As president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. Tonight, WAMF, in Amherst, presents the prerecorded broadcast of a talk given last spring by Dr. Radio announcer: Good evening, and welcome to the lecture hall. Re-broadcast on WAMF on DecemTranscription He also said that percentage will increase as his campaign continues.Dr. voters, socialist sounds a lot like communist.Īnd that Gallup Poll showing more Americans would vote for an atheist or Muslim than a socialist? Sanders told the New York Times recently that he thought the numbers were surprisingly good since they showed 47 percent of the electorate would vote for a socialist. Of course, Sanders is not running for president of Sweden. "In Western Europe, these are mainstream political parties that are in and out of government all the time," he said. "It's basically focused on big businesses, and capitalist inequalities."Įric Davis, a retired Middlebury College political scientist, agrees. "It's a relatively mild, I would say a vanilla socialism," Nelson said Sanders told them. "This is not communism this is not five-year plans, collectivized agriculture and nationalized industry," he said.īack in 1981 when Sanders was first elected mayor of Burlington, Nelson said reporters from Europe called him because what they viewed as normal in politics was considered an aberration in the States. Garrison Nelson, a professor of political science at the University of Vermont, has observed Sanders throughout his political career. "How many Americans know that in virtually every major industrialized country people are guaranteed vacation time, paid vacation time? That when you have a baby, moms and dads are guaranteed.
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Those governments support paid sick leave, universal health care and free higher education. Sanders points out that in many races for mayor and Congress he ran and won as an independent, not as a member of any socialist party.Īnd he says the kind of socialism he advocates is the Democratic socialism seen in Scandinavia and other countries in Europe. "What am I trying to do in this campaign is to tell Americans what many of them don't know: that the benefits for working people are a lot, lot stronger in many other countries around the world," he has said. Neither one of these definitions is what Sanders is talking about. Marxist theory says socialism is the transitional stage between capitalism and communism. Webster's dictionary defines socialism as a form of society in which government owns or controls major industries. Do I go around saying, 'Hey Bob, I am the self-avowed socialist?' You know, it's what media does," Sanders said. Here's how Sanders reacted when VPR's Bob Kinzel asked him recently about that "avowed socialist" tagline. "I think he would like to see Medicare for all."īut it is not a word Sanders often uses on the campaign trail to define himself. I very rarely read in any coverage of Bernie that he is a socialist," McCaskill said. "I think the media is giving Bernie a pass right now. Claire McCaskill - widely seen as a proxy for Sanders rival Hillary Clinton - used the S-word, questioning whether the media have done enough to expose Sanders' true political leanings. "They laughed at Bernie Sanders when he ran for mayor, not just because he was a brash outsider from Brooklyn, neither Republican nor Democrat, but because he was an avowed socialist," said an NBC News report in 1985, the day Sanders was sworn in for his third term as Burlington mayor.
His socialist tag line first reached a national audience in the 1980s when Sanders became mayor of Burlington. Sanders has not run from the term, even as he surges in his race for president. Bernie Sanders has described himself throughout his career. More Americans say they would vote for a Muslim or an atheist for president than they would for a socialist, according to a recent Gallup Poll. He once said his tenure as a socialist mayor is evidence people are willing to accept radical change.
Bernie Sanders in his office in 1981, shortly after becoming mayor of Burlington, Vt.
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