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![]() Sanders’s candidacy seems to fulfill the demands borne of the post-2008 economic crisis and downturn, the discontents with neoliberalism - itself an artifact of the post-1973 crisis that was met by the 1980s “Reagan revolution” - and to offer the electoral vehicle for the Occupy Wall Street generation of activists disenchanted by Obama and the Democrats after 2012. Just because Sanders embraces instead of rejecting the pejorative hurled at any and all proposed reforms of capitalism doesn’t make the charge any more true in fact: for Sanders it is a mere ethic. “Every demand of the simplest bourgeois financial reform, of the most ordinary liberalism, of the most formal republicanism, of the most insipid democracy, is simultaneously castigated as an ‘attempt on society’ and stigmatized as ‘socialism’.” ( The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852) The specter of “socialism” is just that: the meaning it has for Obama’s Tea Party opponents. Debs that hangs in Sanders’s Senate office. It’s clear that what socialism means in Sanders’s mouth, however, is New Deal liberalism - despite the poster of Eugene V. Most remarkably, the Sanders campaign has introduced the word “socialism” into mainstream political discourse. has been characterized by some throwbacks to the 1980s, most notably in the two major party challengers, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. The campaign cycle for the 2016 general election in the U.S. Bernie Sanders with Jesse Jackson in the 1980s
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