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Marketing a politician isn't about accuracy in labeling.Historically, Sanders is a Communist. He loved Communism. Of course it's not impossible that he changed his position on Communism but it is just as likely that he can't get any political support by calling himself a Communist.
Why does he hold onto the term Socialist while claiming he is a capitalist?
Why muddy his position? Perhaps he still harbors some hope in moving the US towards Communism.
They're treated like kings and nobles of eras past. And it wasn't that way in the more recent past (it was more unfettered prior to that and far, far worse in regards to human dignity and rights because they too had a price tag to be sold and traded as property and market commodities) because it was far more constrained, and the upper-most income level was taxed high enough to encourage putting that money instead into improving things for workers. And now the greed that oils the gears of profit are beginning to turn with fewer hindrances to slow them down.
Real socialism never happened. It always was a part of *but some are more equal than others".
Socialism still has markets and can still have capitalism. Communism, at least as Marx wrote, has no money for Capitalism to function or exist. Democratic Socialist (what Sanders is) is still based on Capitalism but with a Socialist drive to benefit the masses.Why does he hold onto the term Socialist while claiming he is a capitalist?
Why muddy his position? Perhaps he still harbors some hope in moving the US towards Communism.
And what makes you think it will work this time? Humans are the same no matter where you go.
I did not say that it is going to work , it is utopia that can be tried under something like dictatorship of proletariat,, or may be 1000 years of Christ reign on Earth. Socialism needs honest good will to work. This is main reason that 'building of communist society' failed in the USSR : failure of new communist consciousness to materialize.
"Immoral and evil" is the only way to describe our system. People complain they don't want the government between doctors and patients, but as it is now insurance companies are so firmly lodged between patient and doctor that there is little room for anyone and anything else, including at times the clinician, evidence, and accepted practices. Doctors have committed fraud and lied to insurance so I could get the care I needed, and I have paid it forward and committed fraud for my clients when they needed what insurance won't give them (or help them find loopholes around unreasonable insurance demands). Going into healthcare, in my experience it isn't practicing health but practicing making money for a company and fighting with insurance so your clients can get needed care.
That's what RF calls "state capitalism" in its definitions.
Yup. I'm not a purist, but our culture has reached a point where "mix and match" has become ridiculous. Socialism and Communism, granted, those two are debated as to the specifics of what is what and if they are interchangeable or not, but they clearly aren't capitalist. Just as Marxists aren't Libertarians and Libertarians aren't Marxists. We might sometimes be just as "south" as Libertarians, but the two are fundamentally opposing ideologies built upon inherently and radically different economic systems, which is pretty much the core issue to Marxists and Libertarians and why one group are Marxists and the other Libertarians.
According to RF definitions, one can be a communist libertarian & a capitalist socialist.
They're also not Democratic Socialist.
Imo, true , non utopian, socialism is capable to solve many serious world's problems.
The approach is different and more like Marx wrote of it, where things gradually transition from Capitalism to Socialism (and then to Communism according to Marx).
Apparently you've never been to any of these countries and don't know how they work. Sure, there are some Democratic Socialist parties in these countries, but for the most part they're either fringe or at best junior partners in government coalitions. The Social Democratic parties are the major players on the left--SPD, SPÖ, Labor, etc.