Bernie simply wanted to associate himself with the more extreme [[Marxist-Leninist]] survivors of the [[McCarthy era]], differentiate himself as more militant than liberal Democrats, and didn't want to debate the pros and cons of European social democracy either cause he's unknowledgeable or felt it detracted from building a socialist movement in America. | Bernie simply wanted to associate himself with the more extreme [[Marxist-Leninist]] survivors of the [[McCarthy era]], differentiate himself as more militant than liberal Democrats, and didn't want to debate the pros and cons of European social democracy either cause he's unknowledgeable or felt it detracted from building a socialist movement in America. |