Bernie Sanders's Democratic Socialism: Holding Utopia Accountable

ISBN-13: 9783030696603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 265 str.

Nicolas Gachon

Spis treści

Part I: Utopianism

1. Marxism and socialism in America

1.1 Marxist thought

1.2 Debsian socialism

1.3 Adhesion withour cohesion

2. Utopida and reform

2.1 America's special destiny

2.2 Edwars Bellamy, Lincoln Steffens

2.3 Utopianism as a political charge

3. Socialism and progressivism

3.1 Reform as the "continuing frontier"

3.2 Progressive reform and optimism

3.3 Karl Polanyi's socialism

Part II: Realpolitik 

4. An experiment in municipal socialism

4.1 Mayor Sanders of Burlington

4.2 All that socialist "pornography"

4.3 Foreign policy as a local issue

5. Embracing the Democratic Party

5.1 From local to state and national politicsl

5.2 The road to the U.S. Senate

5.3 Bernie Sanders's congressional record

6. Bernie Sanders's liberal matrix

6.1 The lexicon of the New Deal

6.2 Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson

6.3 The lexicon of the 1960s

Part III: 99 percent

7. Hegemony

7.1 Gramscian hegemony

7.2 Americanism

7.3 Consent and consensus 

8. Hope

8.1 A post-American promise

8.2 The Great Recession

8.3 A dream deferred

9. Occupying Wall Street

9.1 A bipolar political spectrum

9.2 Content and form

9.3 Neoanarchism 

Part IV: Democratic socialism as reparative justice

10. Enduring injustice

10.1 Historicism and collective memory

10.2 A failure of liberalism

10.3 Restoring an egalitarian liberal order

11. State and corporate responsibility

11.1 Enduring responsibility

11.2 Liberalism and responsibility

11.3 The age of corporate apologies

12. Democratic socialism and the mainstream

12.1 Democratic socialism

12.2 Democratic socialism and the Democrats

12.3 Redistributive justice

O autorze

Nicolas Gachon is a specialist in US Politics and Political History at the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. He has also held previous positions with the French Embassies in the United States and in Canada.

Blurb

This book provides a framework for understanding and analyzing Bernie Sanders’s democratic socialism, its origins, its maturation, and its evolution between 1972, when Sanders ran for the Vermont gubernatorial election for the first time, and 2020, when he made his second presidential run. The core argument is that Bernie Sanders’s characteristic brand of socialism evolved from the mould of late 19th century utopian radicalism to radical demands for state and corporate accountability in the 21st century, turning into a social movement for reparative justice that rose to national prominence in the wake of the Great Recession in 2008 and of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.

Nicolas Gachon is a specialist in US Politics and Political History at the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. He has also held previous positions with the French Embassies in the United States and in Canada.