The ANTI-egalitarian Bernie Sanders

Sanders implicitly tells striking UAW workers to stick with capitalism and class inequality

Pay close attention to what Bernie Sanders said in his speech to striking UAW workers, especially his phrase "not just the 1 percent." (See his speech at https://jacobin.com/.../bernie-sanders-uaw-shawn-fain... .)

Sanders supported the strike (obviously!) on the grounds that it was aimed at reducing the unequal distribution of wealth in the U.S.. Sanders's closing words were:

"Brothers and sisters, the CEOs of General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis and their major stockholders on Wall Street have got to understand they cannot have it all. We refuse to live in an oligarchy. We refuse to accept a society in which so few have so much and so many have so little.

"Brothers and sisters, enough is enough. Let us stand together to end corporate greed. Let us stand together to rebuild the disappearing middle class. Let us create an economy that works for all, not just the 1 percent. And let us all — every American in every state in this country — stand with the UAW."

Sanders's phrase "not just the 1 percent" indicates that he is not advocating egalitarianism, which means no rich and no poor, in other words that there not BE a 1 percent (i.e. billionaires) but rather simply that the economy not be "just" for them.

This explains why Sanders advocates taxing the billionaires LESS than they were taxed under the Eisenhower administration, as you can read about at https://www.pdrboston.org/sanders-s-fake-tax-the-rich .

Because our society is based on economic production for profit, and on the principle that you deserve to have only what you can pay for--instead of the principle of "From each according to reasonable ability, to each according to need or reasonable desire with scarce things equitably rationed according to need"-- and because it is based on the principle that a few people should own the means of production and own everything that workers produce with them, and that workers should get only paltry wages for their labor instead of the principle that the means of production belong to society and society should be genuinely democratic with no rich and no poor (as described at https://www.pdrboston.org/genuine-democracy-what-is-it ), in other words because our society is based on class inequality instead of egalitarianism, people suffer unjustly.

But Sanders does not advocate abolishing class inequality. He does not call for WIDELY SHARED (see evidence here) egalitarian principles to shape our society, only capitalist ones. He only advocates that workers be paid a bit more, but remain have-nots in a society of some rich and some poor.

The ruling class LOVES to have people like Bernie Sanders tell striking workers what they are fighting for, because he tells them they are fighting to KEEP CAPITALISM and its CLASS INEQUALITY and its FAKE DEMOCRACY by making it be "not just for the 1 percent."