He's not dumb enough to say he's going to "eliminate capitalism," and I don't think he could do so if he won. At this point in his career, he's pragmatic enough to know better. However, I do think that's where his principles are and what he would do if he could for a few reasons. First, like I said previously, he calls himself a "democratic socialist." Even if most Americans don't know what that means, he does. He's no genius, but he does know the nuances of socialism, so I take him at his word. He knows that the Nordic countries aren't democratic socialist states, and he knows that democratic socialism means the elimination of capitalism.
Second, he has praised the actions of Marxist-Leninist states such as Venezuela under Chavez, Nicaragua under Ortega, and of course, the Soviet Union. He usually blunts that praise by admitting their "non-perfection," which is to be expected from a democratic socialist, but he's basically favorable to them from a policy standpoint. He thinks they ran things well and took good care of their people. Well, those are nations that clearly didn't fall into the social democracy category and not just because they were totalitarian. Their economies were structured entirely differently.
Third, some of the candidates he endorses are openly hostile to capitalism, and he's obviously OK with that and has endorsed some pretty radical policies that go beyond the Nordic model. See AOC, who says that capitalism is "irredeemable." See the Green New Deal, which Sanders has endorsed. Obviously, the proposal is short on specifics ( since nobody's asking for them), but it's pretty hard to do what's in it without some pretty substantial "capitalism destruction."
Full disclosure - if he was a social democrat, I would not be any more supportive of him. Social democracy is still bad policy. We've tried facets of it, and we're terrible at it. We have trillions in unfunded liabilities because of it - financially the biggest mistake we've made in 240 years. Furthermore, I don't want the tax burden. I know we only hear about the super rich getting hit with new taxes to finance social democratic programs, but I know better, because I live in a semi-social democracy (actually a relatively moderate and right-leaning social democracy) and know that everybody ultimately pays. I don't want my payroll taxes doubled, my incomes taxes hiked, a $3 per gallon gasoline tax, 30 cent per kw/h electricity, and a 19 percent VAT. That's just not a good system to emulate if you want a free economy and respect economic liberty.
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