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Rand makes for a convenient & well-known reference when making a brief point on a casual discussion board. I have a similar reaction to many of the "soak the r

• talideon 11y ago
  If Rand is the best reference, then I'm not sure those boards are all that well worth taking part in. Sanders isn't a Maxist/Marxian by a long shot. He might describe himself as a democratic socialist, but he's really a social democrat with much more in common with the aims of the Fabian Society than anything else: his ideas are pretty much those of any European social democratic party (such as the British Labour party, Dutch PvdA and GroenLinks, German SPD, French Parti socialiste), and whatever you might somehow think, none of those parties are hives of Bolshevism. Also, whatever about the 'soak the rich' thing (which I haven't seen much evidence for), only one commenter seems to take Marxian though seriously here, and even they said that he's doing himself a disservice by using the label 'democratic socialist'[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11066351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11066351