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What Bernie Gets Wrong About Socialism
What Bernie Gets Wrong About Socialism
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22 minutes
Released:
Jun 14, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
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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Guest: Jordan Weissmann, economics and policy writer at Slate.
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Released:
Jun 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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