March 4, 2020
No Lenin, No Trotsky, No Bernie
By Richard Dean Young
When I was a kid in the 1950s, I attended a school summer camp where one of the fireside songs, sung to a Russian tune, was:
No Lenin, no Trotsky,
No Russian diplomatsky
Will ever form a plotsky
To overthrow the Czar. Hey!
We all knew what had happened some 40 years earlier, but the ditty was fun to sing, and that was about my depth of understanding of the Bolshevik Revolution at that age.
Today, another almost ancient phenomenon has magically appeared out of the radical mists of what was once considered a 20th-century failed movement. This marvel is called Bernie Sanders. With great wonderment, a majority of American folks look upon this old curmudgeon as a Marxist blast from the past.
The fact that a huge segment of pampered youth, as well as a few die-hard socialists and anarchists about Bernie's age, are "feeling the Bern" has caught most of us off guard, and we don't know whether to take all this as a bad joke or as a truly serious challenge to our way of life.
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