Insiders recount how Sanders lost the black vote -- and the nomination slipped away

[The Magistrate]

12. This Is A Besetting Sin Of A Marxist Orientation, Sir

To a Marxist analysis, most every 'social problem' is the result of some distortion or other introduced into society by the exploitative relations of capitalism. They can only be solved through successful class struggle. Attempts to address any such issues as problems in their own right is to be decried as 'bourgeois sentimentality' or worse. In fact, there is little worse than distraction from the class struggle, so that focus on such matters may even be seen as intended to hamper the class struggle, even sabotage it. As with the imprisonment of homosexuals and prostitutes in Cuba under Castro, persons who persist in such distorted behavior once the class struggle has been won are engaged in counter-revolution, and if they cannot be cured must be quarantined, so that they cannot interfere with the work of securing revolutionary gains. Sanders may have ceased employing the vocabulary in public, but the old structures of thought he feasted on in the U. of C. library still show through.




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."