Bernie Sanders on Employee Ownership and Authentic Democracy (1985)

Video of the full Forum: • Video
Bernie Sanders' opening remarks to the June 30, 1985 Progressive Entrepreneurship Forum at City Hall in Burlington, VT.
Video is courtesy of CCTV Archives, Burlington Vermont, www.cctv.org.

[@eoswald203]

very Richard D. Wolff sounding!

[@NaturalManifestation]

I miss this version of Bernie. Wish he would talk about this stuff way more often.

[@KoruGo]

He still proposed a bill to help worker co-ops back in ~2017.

[@gustavojohannessautter9484]

Absoluetly briliant. I wish he'd have these kinds of speeches in the rallys.

[@DrSanity7777777]

Very true. This subject is one that both sides have in common. They just don't know it yet. "This is the good side of hotel work. In a hotel a huge and complicated machine is kept running by an inadequate staff, because every man has a well-defined job and does it scrupulously. But there is a weak point, and it is this--that the job the staff are doing is not necessarily what the customer pays for. The customer pays, as he sees it, for good service; the employee is paid, as he sees it, for the BOULOT--meaning, as a rule, an imitation of good service. The result is that, though hotels are miracles of punctuality, they are worse than the worst private houses in the things that matter." - George Orwell kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHuplKOIrc-oaMk

[@DrSanity7777777]

"The system very, very rarely makes the mistake of letting someone like me in." - Bernard Sanders (as mayor)

[@lizacowan1658]

This gave me goosebumps! Brilliant.

[@crypticmystic3489]

Absolutely amazing. A man with ideas finally was close to leading our nation and just missed it. So disappointing.

[@alexsch2514]

I always thought Bernie was a big talker social Democrat, but apparently he is a real socialist. Cool.

[@bruceseifer3251]

If you want to learn more about what happened as a result of Bernie's effort to build a durable economy and a city that work for all read: "Sustainable Communities ~ Creating a Durable Local Economy." Bernie Sanders wrote the forward to this book.

[@asbestoz1123]

Damn he was still ancient 30 years ago

[@dylankelley808]

Big daddy

[@theelectricant98]

bernie is my big daddy

[@chuckebbs7541]

Bernie!!!

[@FemboyBlake]

The GOAT.

[@DrSanity7777777]

"This is the good side of hotel work. In a hotel a huge and complicated machine is kept running by an inadequate staff, because every man has a well-defined job and does it scrupulously. But there is a weak point, and it is this--that the job the staff are doing is not necessarily what the customer pays for. The customer pays, as he sees it, for good service; the employee is paid, as he sees it, for the BOULOT--meaning, as a rule, an imitation of good service. The result is that, though hotels are miracles of punctuality, they are worse than the worst private houses in the things that matter." - George Orwell

[@MrLarrythehacker]

0:44

[@tjofcarolina64]

He has an accent

[@satoshikamasutra620]

My God, he literally has never had a new idea in his entire life.

[@wokerwanderung]

Neither have you :'-)

[@tjofcarolina64]

????? Neither has Donald Trump

[@Dab74442]

Given his chances of being impeached, I kinda doubt that bud.

[@OldTeaMate]

Satoshi Kamasutra, your god?

[@Rustycan5639]

Get fucking shit on reactionary