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What Next - What Bernie Gets Wrong About Socialism

What Next - What Bernie Gets Wrong About Socialism

As it turns out, his big speech about democratic socialism focused on something that’s incorrect.

Slate News · Slate Podcasts

June 14, 201920m 7s

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Show Notes

The Bernie Sanders campaign billed his speech on Wednesday as a “major address on how democratic socialism is the only way to defeat oligarchy and authoritarianism.” Besides being a mouthful, the speech was an attempt for Bernie to explain why he calls himself a socialist. However, he gets a key element of the pitch wrong. Was it an accident or is Bernie intentionally trying to change what being a socialist in America means?

Guest: Jordan Weissmann, economics and policy writer at Slate.


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