2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The DNC establishment is going to escort Bernie to NH SOS on Thursday to get his name on the ballot. [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)I am a Socialist Democrat....I support regulated capitalism...not eliminating it.
Did you know that he is a former member of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_People%27s_Socialist_League_(1907)
which is affiliated with..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America
The SP stopped running presidential candidates after 1956, when its nominee Darlington Hoopes won fewer than 6,000 votes. In the party's last decades, its members, many of them prominent in the labor, peace, civil rights and civil liberties movements, fundamentally disagreed about the socialist movement's relationship to the labor movement and Democratic Party in the U.S., and about how best to advance democracy abroad. In 19701973, these strategic differences had become so acute that the Socialist Party changed its name to Social Democrats, USA. Leaders of two of its caucuses formed separate socialist organizations, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the Socialist Party USA.