NY Times: The socialism of Bernie Sanders isn’t really socialism
John SextonPosted at 3:01 pm on April 22, 2019
The NY Times published a piece last Friday titled “Socialist! Capitalist! Economic Systems as Weapons in a War of Words.†The piece is a sort of interview with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz who is eager to argue that the kind of socialism now emerging in the United States isn’t really socialism or at least not full communism:
“The meanings of the words have changed over time,†said Mr. Stiglitz, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton and a former chief economist of the World Bank. And the words have become the subject of a branding battle crossing political and generational divides.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/22/ny-times-socialism-bernie-sanders-isnt-really-socialism/
