An amazing Bernie Sanders profile

[pottipotato]

Wow.. what an entertaining piece about his time as Burlington mayor. Its stupid of me to not make the connection with Murray Bookchin, who lived in Burlington for a long time. And its nice to know that these two have collaborated, and fought against each other.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154086/bernies-red-vermont

One of the activists organizing against the plant was the Bronx-born anarchist cum ecological theorist Murray Bookchin. He had recently retired from his teaching job at Ramapo College in New Jersey, allowing him to live full-time in Vermont and throw himself into writing and cultivating the activists and acolytes who had gathered around him. 

When Sanders was first elected mayor, Bookchin was excited, pointing out the “ten anarchist votes” that put Sanders over the top, according to a biography of him by his companion and student Janet Biehl. Bookchin saw in Sanders the potential seeds of a movement that could integrate his anarchist ideals of non-domination with his belief in the essential sociality of humankind—ultimately producing a kind of town meeting–based model of governance. While Sanders was not the ambitious intellectual synthesizer that Bookchin was, he had always advocated for greater public participation in governance as well.

 

[pottipotato]

Sanders speaks like a socialist, but governs like a pragmatist. cool.

 

[pottipotato]

Even if Sanders is the more formidable enemy, compared to morons like Trump, and sellouts like any democrat, I have a soft corner for Sanders. I hope he becomes the president of US.

[pottipotato]

Like the piece points out, Bookchin has inspired in Rojava, a real living example of his Libertarian Municipalism, and if Sanders becomes president in 2020, he'll try to implement what he has been advocating for the past 30yrs.

cool. even though most leftists hate Bernie Sanders.

[pottipotato]

Its clear that Sanders is not ideologically motivated, even if his stance on labour-business relationship is stuck in the early 20th century. Not sure if he's going to change his mind on proposals like job guaranteee, if he somehow becomes president.