Marx Didn’t Distinguish Between Communism and Socialism; Why Should We?

(Left) A portrait of Karl Marx, circa 1875. (International Institute of Social History via Wikimedia Commons) (Right) British political theorist Harold Laski, a leading Fabian socialist, circa 1940. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Commentary

When President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he believes the Democrats’ frontrunner, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is a communist, the president clarified, “You could say socialist,” but then again, “I think of Bernie sort of as a socialist but far beyond a socialist.”