It is important to remember that not all socialists are the same. Neither are all Marxists the same. Not all nationalizations are the same, either. Britain no longer has a nationalized trucking industry, but it still has a National Health Service which—whatever may be its pluses and minuses—is so much a fixture that Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson won first the Brexit referendum and then his commanding parliamentary majority late last year by promising to enlarge the NHS with the money that would otherwise have gone to Europe.
Sanders’ brand of democratic socialism has failed convincingly whenever and wherever it has extended nationalization beyond health care. That is not to say that national health care or socialized medicine in itself is a wonderful or desirable thing, but those who, sensibly, are more concerned with what works than they are with the principles of some free-market checklist will note that some national health care systems (Israel or Germany) clearly work better than the present American hybrid of public and private, while some clearly do not work at all (Canada, I am looking at you).
Above all, it’s vital to maintain a clear picture of the system as it actually exists in America and to remember that our current debate is not one between pure Marxism versus pure capitalism.
If we want to beat Bernie Sanders, we have to be empirical and pragmatic. Bernie is vulnerable if we can make the case that while some of the things he wants to do, like nationalizing health care, just might be made to work in ways that make ordinary Americans better off, others, like nationalizing energy and banning fracking, will not.
Bernie is vulnerable in that his foreign policy is similar to Blame (American) First...
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