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State funded health care, higher minimum wages, expanded Social Security with private entities being more tightly regulated and higher taxes. Essentially pay more in taxes, get more benefits, and Wall Street will be kept on a tighter leash.

Democratic voters respond very positively to the European Social Democrats welfare initiatives and think of it as "socialism". Bernie is using this to run as an alternative to Shillary and if poll numbers are any indication it's far more successful than whatever O'Malley is doing. In addition, Sanders is doing better than Shillary among voters who would normally vote Republican, so either poor rural workers are secretly socialist or saying you want a higher minimum wage isn't a toxic position. Americans don't have a good understanding of political labels, as can be evidenced by the misunderstanding of "liberal", "socialist", and "communist". As for naivete, the top Republican candidates believe that building a wall along the US-Mexico border and making Mexico pay for it is feasible and that pyramids are actually giant grain silos. It seems naive positions are the best received. A conspiracy theory about a Jew infiltrating the government to implement communism? Qisinta is that you?

Interesting, is the most recent thing a dissertation written about him from the 80's? He's a politician, being a liar is part of the job description.

He also supports private businesses, which isn't very anti-capitalist. If you can find where he has come out in favor of worker control of production, I'll even give you co-ops for this, then you'll find a statement of him supporting socialism. North Korea says they're a democratic republic, do you take them at their word? Obama says he's pro-freedom, do you take him at his word? Based upon his proposals Bernie Sanders is a Social Democrat, he critiques capitalism from a socialist viewpoint, but does not put forward an alternative to capitalism instead advocating reforms. Mutalism and Technocratic fit alternatives not occurring in a post-Nuclear Fallout world. As to what he believes in, Capitalism with a social safety net. His "socialism" is capitalism with government providing more benefits and regulating industry, not public ownership of production.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/11/21/whatever-the-heck-bernie-sanders-is-talking-about-its-not-socialism/ The senile old man is confused, or more likely lying. He says he's against capitalism, so he has to be a Socialist, what else is there?Mutalism, Primitivism, Feudalism, Technocracy.I mean besides sci-fi and ancient past. Feudalism, really? It's an alternative system to Capitalism and Socialism. Which you asked for. At any rate, Bernie is a capitalist. He believes in private ownership of production, albeit with a safety net bound to trigger liberals and aynclaps.

Jews are Islamic terrorists? That's just what the paddys want you to think. You've been blinded by the mirage of Zion to the true dangers of the Hibernian Druids and their plot to enslave the world.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/11/21/whatever-the-heck-bernie-sanders-is-talking-about-its-not-socialism/ The senile old man is confused, or more likely lying. He says he's against capitalism, so he has to be a Socialist, what else is there? Mutalism, Primitivism, Feudalism, Technocracy.

And of those still alive, it's arguable that they will be the biggest victims of the response to the attack rather than the attack itself. His point still stands. I don't see how Neonazis and antisemitism are relevant here. Qisinta is ranting about Jews somewhere else if that's what you would rather talk about the dangers of antizionism or whatever. Which was over 50 years ago. China today is quite different, with a government built more around Austrian economics than Mao's peasant fetishization. And that also happens to be where power in China resides. The peasant countryside is about as relevant to China's power structure and economy as the Quakers are to the US economy and power structure. How so? Does the transference of control over production from private control to the state, democratic organizations of workers, whoever is strong enough to seize it, an all powerful AI, every individual, or whatever other special snowflake idea for production control necessitate a severe drop in productivity?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/11/21/whatever-the-heck-bernie-sanders-is-talking-about-its-not-socialism/ Don't say it, to name it is to give it power Really though I wonder how much more consideration some of his ideas what get without the labels He does better than people who would normally vote Republican than Hillary does. Whether it's because they like his ideas or he's just more likable is anyone's guess.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/11/21/whatever-the-heck-bernie-sanders-is-talking-about-its-not-socialism/

It makes sense that a rich guy who works in the financial sector would support such institutions.

Assange isn't a Marxist. Is there some sort of hidden chapter in Das Kapital that I missed excluding hat/ unlockable/ collectible based economies from other petit-bourgeois/ worker oppressing approaches or is Varoufakis not actually a dirty commie either? He's kind of got that reputation because he loathes the ECB etc, but that's called having a brain, not being communist. Indeed, I'm pretty sure Marx would hate steam- dress Gabe up in a pin striped suit with a cane and top hat and he'd be the epitome of the 19th century capitalist, plus he's head of a global religion- and would amend his most famous tenet to "Religion, and gaming, and probably sports too now I think about it are all the opiates of the masses". He'd have disowned Varoufakis over his association with it. Varoufakis calls himself a "libertarian Marxist"(some sort of less devoted anarchist perhaps?), but in practice has suggested mostly Keynesian ideas. Not sure what that makes him, but my opinions come more from his actions trying to prevent Greece from taking the austerity pill than whatever he calls himself.

My grandmother was born into a Jewish family and none of them thought a Jewish state was a good idea. Jews are hardly a monolith and it's a bit deluded to assume they are. This message has been brought to you by the Hibernian Druids, you dirty sasanachs.

A more accurate question should be " do you think the destruction of Western institutions would bring about social equality and end starvation " I would say this is highly unlikely and will just exacerbate these problems globally You're the one who said starvation and inequality were linked to western institutions in the first place Bruce.

If ending social inequality and starvation requires the destruction of Western institutions, then those institutions should be destroyed.

I cringed so hard while skimming this... I figured you would be triggered. Assange isn't a Marxist. So refugees unable to flee Syria and having to deal with ISIS aren't victims? Or the ones currently in Europe who now have to deal with increased tension from locals? Pointing out that being victims doesn't prevent one from victimizing others is hardly a "disgusting equation". But from someone who thinks any criticism of Israel is an anti-Zionist plot to unleash the Holocaust 2: Electric Boogaloo such a sentiment is unsurprising. I highly doubt his criticism of material waste under capitalism is a ringing endorsement of the Soviets. And China? Unless you have some special snowflake definition of Capitalism, the fact that production in China is controlled privately means it is capitalist. The reason you have starvation is because China's huge population ensures a large labor surplus and as such they can easily bring in new laborers if the current ones don't want the pitiful wages they currently are paid. If you think that wanting a new movement based around "a preaching of love and unification" is bad, then I think that speaks more of your distaste of Christian teachings than Assange's idealism. Or is Christianity no longer about love and unification of God's children? ISIS is a capitalist economy supported largely by oil sold to Turkey. We aren't dealing with a loose coalition of terrorist cells, we are dealing with a state complete with infrastructure and internal economy. "Ending Capitalism" is far from a practical solution to dealing with ISIS in the short term, but pretending there is no economic factors in ISIS power is delusional.

http://gffreepages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/slavoj-zizek-yanis-varoufakis-julian.html Zizek, Varoufakis, and Assange talk about the EU and the ISIS in Paris. Thought some of you would like it.

Yeah Bartho, stop spreading your propaganda. Even if we use the highly inflated "poverty" stats by the US, these leeches are still surviving off more than two dollars a day and most have ceiling fans! Ceiling fans! Do you think real poor kids have ceiling fans in their huts? Check your ceiling fan privilege and be thankful for that, you ungrateful parasites.

Clinton being a Wall Street shill makes her look far worse than a staffer being assblasted.

Clearly this is more Hibernian misinformation to take your money. Why do you think US paper money is green? Coincidence? I think not.

Wake up people, the Celtic Catastrophe is nigh!

If Cameron wants to scare off terrorists, all he has to do is **** the pig again.

No, they've managed to commodify most parts of a relationship actually. In addition to prostitution, you can pay someone to go on a date with you dressed as an anime character or to cuddle for about an hour.

An internet squabble is comparable to the Spanish Civil War? Ponies, not even once.

Let me guess: Jews, right? No, the Irish.