Amy Goodman
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Anand Giridharadas on why the socialism/capitalism binary is false
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February 26, 2020
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3:28Now Playing"There are some people who had a great life in the 20th century who should have considered remaining in it," says author Anand Giridharadas, who is tired of pundits and politicians like Michael Bloomberg who understand politics in terms of simplistic Cold-War era binaries of socialism versus capitalism. "It's not particularly helpful now, in 2020, to be reliving your own Cold War trauma as guidance for the United States. Michael Bloomberg is trying to present this old American talking point that you got two choices, people: We can either be a Goldman Sachs country, or we can be Maduro's Venezuela." Giridharadas argues that almost every country in the world is structured by a mix of capitalist and socialist elements, and that the American electorate needs to come to terms with this in the 2020 election.
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