How American Socialism Stormed the Democratic Party

New York Times: “Socialists are used to losing in this country. Yet their movement has endured, because socialism — more of a spirit than a single ideology — adapts to each era. Socialists are astute critics of the status quo, always imagining other ways to live, whatever historical moment they happen to be in. Now their fortunes have turned, and they could be ‘on the verge of the political revolution we have fought for for such a long time,’ as Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has bedeviled the party while becoming the most influential American socialist in a century, said last week.”

“But if the movement is so amorphous, what is the type of socialism that is ascendant now?”