Posted on 02/20/2016 12:32:23 PM PST by TBP
It’s long been known that the only self-professed socialist in the Senate spent time on a kibbutz, or communal farm. Nothing wrong with that. But so tight-lipped has Mr. Sanders been about it that the Israeli daily Haaretz put its reporters on the mystery.
“One of Israel’s best-kept secrets†is how the paper described the name of Mr. Sanders’ kibbutz. At one point it thought it had found the senator’s name in a kibbutz archive, but it turned out to be a Bernice Stamder.
Haaretz finally solved the mystery last week, with the discovery, in its own files, of an interview Mr. Sanders gave to the paper back in 1990. In it, the future senator speaks of spending time on a kibbutz called Shaar Haamakim.
The kibbutz, according to the Times of Israel, belonged to an Israeli political party called Mapam, which had in the 1950s “been a communist, Soviet-affiliated faction.†It said kibbutz members “had admired Joseph Stalin until his death.â€
They would, the Times of Israel reports, “celebrate May Day with red flags.†They spoke of “controlling the means of production, taking from each according to his abilities and giving to each according to his needs.â€
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Is he hiding an email server in his bathroom closet?
Sanders’ past reminds me of someone else whose past is TOTALLY IGNORED.
I’ve heard the Kibbutz is the only instance of communism working.
Was that propaganda?
Didn’t Stalin dislike Jewish people? I don’t know. I’m asking.
Someone earlier today used the term”socialist viper.”
That’s what we’re looking at here.
Too soon...
He must beat Hillary first...... then the commie proof can be laid on
Haretz is for hillary
Well, he did engineer the murder of Lev Bronstein (AKA Leon Trotsky).
The true horror is the size of his following.(discounting the number of Democrats who do not wish to leave that party yet cannot stand Hillary so vote for Bernie.)
Yes, doesn’t it?
It’s only Republicans who get the media endoscopy....
We all remember the valiant MSM warriors who delved into the status of Joe the Plumber’s trade license and the DNA of Palin’s Down Syndrome child.
-—I’ve heard the Kibbutz is the only instance of communism working.-—
Oneida and Amana worked for a pretty good while
Locally Shekinah started out good but floundered from individual greed
that was Trotsky’s real name?
Get out, I never knew that!
I don’t know if it worked or not, but it could’ve. Know why?
One critical fact: members are in VOLUNTARILY on an individual basis.
So by definition, you have members willing to comply. Also, since it’s basically private, those misbehaving by taking advantage of the situation can be expelled from the group.
This is really no different than the early Christian “Way” which acted in similar, communist fashion. The free will to join and the ability of the group to expel are key for any such system to work.
However, under Stalin, for example, once the red system was in place, you were a member whether you liked it or not. If you didn’t “behave”, then it was death or the gulags for you.
Big diff.
Yes, just as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was Lenin’s real name. None of them used their real names.
There are cases of mistaken identity.
It turned out that John Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible.
But Bernie is Bernie the Commie.
From an old Young Americans for Freedom song (to the tune of “Clementine”)
“Leon Trotsky was a Nazi.
Oh, we knew it for a fact.
Pravda said it, we all read it
Before the Stalin-Hitler pact.”
When did Sanders stop being a Stalinist?
If Sanders is nominated, I fear we may find out in November how much the Communists have infected our country’s youth with their failed philosophy.
elect a faithful Jew, yes!
elect an atheist (and communist)... no way, Jose!
I worked with a Jew that was proudly communist. His parents immigrated from Russia and were activists communist labor unionists. The only time I called him out on anything was when he celebrated Reagan’s death.
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