Is Bernie Sanders a Communist?

Is Bernie a Communist? I've studied various forms of more current Marxism. Just like you have various capitalist viewpoints (like some people feel the markets will bring about corrections others feel business industries need regulation) there are different forms of Marxism as well.
In Communism the Communist Party controls all the politics and economy so it is fundamentally anti-democratic.

In what Bernie calls himself "a democratic socialist" one party doesn't control everything or the economy. The economy can be mixed.

Bernie from what I read likes certain businesses and entrepreneurial endeavors. Also he is working within the dem party so he can't be a communist.

Communists would not usually join the democratic party. BTW Europe and countries all over the world have mixed economies. Even in the US we have ACA and social security which traditional capitalist would consider socialist programs.

So in a way you can say the US has been influenced by Marxism too and all of Europe. The post office is government owned and would be considered a socialist enterprise to most capitalists.

Many educated people know this and so Bernie calling himself a democratic socialist isn't as damaging to his political aspirations today as would be the case 30 or 40 years ago.  Bernie Sander's is not a communist and characterizing him in such a way is more about red baiting than being accurate.

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