Is Bernie a Marxist?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

He probably agrees with most of the key tenets of Marxism: surplus value, base and superstructure, class struggle. To that extent he is a Marxist.

If you mean is he a Marxist-Leninist or what we commonly think of as a "communist," obviously not. He's arguably the most libertarian candidate (as opposed to authoritarian) running.

This. Voted no.

[KaiserDave]

Obviously not

He's a social democrat in the European sense

I guess you've never been in Europe

Sanders would be registered with far left political parties like ''La France Insoumise'' , ''podemos'', ''the NPA'' or ''Die Linke'', he is far to the left of social democratic parties

There has to be a better laughing emoji

[LAKISYLVANIA]

I guess you've never been in Europe

Sanders would be registered with far left political parties like ''La France Insoumise'' , ''podemos'', ''the NPA'' or ''Die Linke'', he is far to the left of social democratic parties

excluding NPA, atm i don't remember who are, the others are all social democratic parties in the classical european sense

and i was born and living in Europe

NPA is trotskyist, to the left of LFI and PCF.

I'm a PVDA-PTB member, which calls themselves marxist. I'm ideologically closer to Bernie, and he's a democratic socialist, not a marxist but to the left of the social democrats nowadays well.

[Horsemask]

In a word, no.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Zionist.

Ironically, Bernie is the least Zionist candidate in a government of radical Zionists.

Zionism is an actual political ideology and movement rooted in history, not some Congressional scorecard given by AIPAC or evangelical elites and their supporters about whether a given American politician unquestionably supports rhetorically and policy-wise Benjamin Netanyahu (Republican-Israel) and his symbiosis of the Israeli and American Right.

In the serious historical sense, Sanders is the only real Zionist in the Democratic Party presidential primaries.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Yes. He's not a doctrinaire Marxist, or a confirmed believer in any of its particular varieties.  But having shown sympathies in the past with aspects of Marxist regimes ( even if abhorring some of their worst abuses ), and so frequently presenting political conflict as merely an expression of class conflict - what other conclusion can one draw that this is a guiding influence on him?