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This chapter reflects on the influence of Marxist thought in America to assess its impact on Bernie Sanders’s intellectual maturing. Sanders read Marx, was taught socialism as a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, felt attracted to leftist causes, and was fascinated by the Russian Revolution and the Bolsheviks. Yet there are hardly any references to Marx in any of his later publications. This chapter reflects on how Sanders adapted his vision of socialism to and for the United States, how he developed his own version of Marxism, an American democratic version of Marxism that, maybe, would not make him consistently unelectable in the United States. The focus is on Eugene V. Debs, Bernie Sanders’s political hero and model. |
