国际思想评论2016,Vol.6Issue(3) :479-488.DOI:10.1080/21598282.2016.1198003

"Socialist" Factors in the US Presidential Election

Zhang Xinning Pei Shaohua
国际思想评论2016,Vol.6Issue(3) :479-488.DOI:10.1080/21598282.2016.1198003

"Socialist" Factors in the US Presidential Election

Zhang Xinning 1Pei Shaohua2
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  • 1. Center for Business Ethics Studies, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou, China
  • 2. College of Human Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
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Abstract

Bernie Sanders, who claims to be a "socialist," surprisingly rises from the 2016 US Democratic presidential primaries, and has created a socialist vision for future America. The "socialism" he has selfclaimed for is virtually democratic socialism. Sander''s meteoric rise in the election polls indicates that capitalist crisis is increasingly exacerbated; meanwhile, socialist thought tends to revitalize in the United States and other capitalist countries. The "socialism" Sanders has claimed will not take place in the United States, yet the historical tendency that socialism will inevitably replace capitalism is not going to change.

Key words

Systemic crisis in the United States/democratic socialism/socialism

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2016
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