Evasively and contemptuously disguising a lifelong hatred of capitalism so intense he spent the Cold War making excuses for and defending communist regimes because they expropriated the expropriators in the name of the working masses, instituting socialism - yes, that means public ownership of the means of production - by revolution and by force.
Better that than not at all, eh?
And all the while grudgingly admitting the crimes of red totalitarian dictatorship, usually insisting on mixing in condemnations of America and capitalism in the same paragraph, if not in the same sentence.
It is no accident that his political hero is not and never was the social democrat Clement Attlee, but the socialist Eugene Debs who came to admire Bolshevik Russia.
Not to mention Castro, Che, the Sandinistas, and a host of others.
Bernie Sanders to Deliver Defense of His Democratic Socialist Philosophy
I really despise this cowardly fraud - specifically for his cowardly fraudulence.
And I have no doubt AOC and the other soi-disant democratic socialists of the Democratic Party feel pretty much the same way as he does.
I have met many people who have called themselves "democratic socialists" in my years, and every one of them hated capitalism and, during the Cold War, defended communist regimes against US opposition.
Harrington, a sincere democratic socialist who was also sincere in his hatred of communism and support for American opposition to them during those years, was a rare exception and, anyway, I never personally met him.
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