Socialism is nebulous at best. Look into rational egoism and understand the root of the rhetoric. I like Marx, after reading Grundrisse and realizing his relationship with Proudhon may be why he was compelled to trust the socialist movement and unfortunately even send an encouraging note the Chenyshevsky unwittingly undermining his life's work by associating with a rational egotist. Bernie is ten time more Chernyshevsky than Marx. He literally thinks he's helping and is entirely inflexible, his understanding of morals and ethics is rigid beyond reason and strategy. Its the flip side of Billionaire Ayn Rand fans who are also rational egotists as Ayn Rand effectively plagiarized Chernyshevsky. Revolution's rarely work. Trump and Bernie are two sides of the same magical thought process. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/russian-novel-chernyshevsky-financial-crisis-revolution-214516