Marco Rubio Says Bernie Sanders ‘Actually Not a Socialist — He’s a Marxist’

Marco Rubio appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on Tuesday, where he questioned whether “socialist” was the proper label for his senate colleague Bernie Sanders, who is the current frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Rubio Explains How Sanders’ View of ‘An Individual’s Role in Society’ Makes Him a Marxist

Rubio said a more accurate label would be “Marxist,” given Sanders’ view of an individual’s role in society.

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“I think he’s gotten away with for years saying that he’s a socialist,” Rubio said. “He’s actually not a socialist. He’s a Marxist. This is Marxism, and Marxism is based on the belief that no person has any value as an individual, that your value is that you’re a member of a class. Second, Marxism is based on the belief that an employer and an employee, a worker and an owner, can’t both help each other and both be better off. The worker gets good pay. The employer makes a profit on the capital they’ve invested.”

‘Marxism always leads to authoritarianism and dictatorship’

“But his ideas are Marxist ideas, and Marxism always leads to authoritarianism and dictatorship, eventually,” Rubio continued. “It does everywhere in the world it’s been tried.”

“And as you point out, in my home state of Florida, we have hundreds of thousands of people who have come to this country fleeing some of the very same policies that we’re now seeing advocated on a debate stage in one of our two major political parties,” Rubio told Sean Hannity.

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Rubio’s Cuban American Constituents Would Know

“Bernie Sanders is the likely Democratic nominee and, frank — and he’s a Marxist, and these are Marxist ideas and needed to be called for what they are,” Rubio finished.

The senator from Florida is not wrong. The very notion that an open socialist is within striking distance of receiving the presidential nomination of one of America’s two major political parties should concern everyone in this country. Sanders socialist ideas have only wrought misery everywhere they have been tried.

Nobody knows this better than Sen. Rubio’s Cuban American constituents.