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1. Today is the day when it's impossible to ignore the fact that Sanders doesn't embrace the concept of "democratic coalition", "front" or that we are fighting fascism (which requires broad alliances to defeat). And he's not a radical so.... what is he?
2. I know radical. I'm a 56 yr old Latin American social scientist who, at 15, had to accept she would never reach adulthood because I would die fighting fascism. All our countries were under fascist dictatorships.
3. I've seen radical. Radicals were just wrong in their political analysis: they believed we were already at a revolutionary stage and therefore should pick up arms and hit the streets (or the fields).
4. Unfortunately, they were wrong. The people were completely oblivious to their plans. Total censorship, social control. Most of them died.
5. I survived and I became a biologist and a social scientist. I'm a professor so I had to teach about social theory, socialism, etc.
6. Bernie is not a socialist and he is well aware that if elected, he will rule a country with a market economy; that he will have to make alliances. So what is Bernie? Not a radical, not a socialist, yet divisive like my old comrades.
7. The ones that died and got others killed. The ones who refused to vote because the working class could win alone. The ones who obviously lost because it couldn't.

What is Sanders?

I don't know. I just know I will support him if he wins the primaries, unlike him with others.
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