It used to be a dirty word. Bernie Sanders helped remove the stigma – but it’s the spectacular failure of capitalism that has really changed people’s mindsIn 1906 German sociologist Werner Sombart wrote an essay entitled Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? that sought to interpret why the US,alone among industrialized democracies, had not developed a major socialist movement.nowadays, and however,we need to pose a different question: why are there socialists in the United States? In this nation that has long been resistant to socialism’s call, who are all these people who now suddenly deem themselves socialists? Where did they come from? What do they mean by socialism?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com