Originally Posted by
njtom
Interesting analysis. I don't know anything about Norwegian politics, but I did look up the Norwegian Socialist Party. It seems to me that it's leader, Audun Lysbakken, is far to the left of Sanders. Senator Sanders definitely does not want to abolish the private ownership of the means of production (which is the classic definition of socialism).
As deputy leader of the Socialist Youth, Lysbakken described himself as a Marxist, and expressed wishes to "abolish capitalism" as well as the Oslo Stock Exchange. In a study booklet for the Socialist Youth that he co-authored, called Manifest 02, he called for a ban on the right to privately own means of production as well as wage labour. He argued for his views in a 2005 interview and was defended by Prime Minister Stoltenberg when appointed minister in 2009. During his campaign to be elected party leader in 2011, he said that "Ten years ago, when I was elected as a representative to the Parliament, I called myself a revolutionary marxist. I no longer do. The world has changed, and the Socialist Left has changed." In 2009 he co-authored a book, arguing that the financial crisis demonstrated, among other things, a need for greater economic democracy.