Gene Debs was exactly the kind of socialist who knew exactly what he was about, public ownership of all or nearly all means of production, the very opposite of the capitalist market system of private ownership of all or nearly all means of production.
Bernie and many others have been lying about what socialism is, not about their campaign agendas but their background ideology and aims.
Like this guy.
Millennials support socialism because they want to make America great — but for everyone
The truth is all this talk of socialism is not doing the Democrats much good and is for sure doing them harm, playing straight into Republicans' scare propaganda.
They have since the Great Depression campaigned against progressive innovations as socialism, communism, and Marxism and campaigned against advocates or defenders of them as socialists, communists, and Marxists.
They even did that to Obama.
With them, it's always time for a new red scare.
Trump and his minions have already started on this, most conspicuously at his most recent state of the union address.
There is no significant upside and too much downside to embracing even the word "socialism" when socialism is not on the Democrats' agenda and their misuse of the word to describe what is on it only validates Republican propaganda that does the same.
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