Chomsky on socialism

[Tal Vez]

5. Your definition of socialism is just another example of what Chomsky meant

when he said that the term socialism "has been so evacuated of content over the last century that it's hard even to use." The original meaning was public ownership of the major means of production. The theory was that the government would for a period of time own and control everything important and that over time there would be a "withering away of the State" leading to a communist nirvana. The traditional definition did not encompass an economy in which every employee owned an equal number of shares in a corporate entity. But, as Chomsky points out, many folks have tried to distort the meaning of the term to serve their own interests. For example, they like to label Medicaid and other transfer programs as Socialism.

My point is that Bernie Sanders has not been calling for Socialism as traditionally defined or even as you are trying to define it and my question is - why did he do that to himself? If you don't know why he did it, you don't know. I sure don't know. That's why I'm asking you.