The Soviet Union implemented socialism. In result, the union collapsed created what resembled a wasteland in some areas. We are reading the Waste Land by T. S. Elliot. Bernie Sanders is a self-proclaimed socialist, who is running, again, for president.
This past Tuesday, Bernie Sanders announced his second presidential campaign. Senator Sanders believes that he has a much better chance of winning this election cycle due to the "coming around" of the political atmosphere to his very radical views. Will he get the democratic domination with as big of a field, we shall see?
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Although it seems a bit arbitrary to bring socialism up in association with the unprecedented literary masterpiece of T.S. Eliot's the Waste Land, I respect the far-fetched link between modern day politics and nearly century old modernist literature. Of course, if we're going to talk Bernie Sanders and socialism, why not bring up Alexandria Ocasio Cortez? In that case, I'd like to say that the relationship between the two "socialists" is comparable to the nature of the shift that occurred in modern interest, society, and politics post World War I. Sanders and AOC are symbols of the shift that Eliot depicts in his poem, the Waste Land, for Sanders is the ruins of the past as in an older generation that is to put forth a significant change in future politics. AOC is the congresswoman who stands as a strong political influencer, only precedented by Michelle Obama or Eleanor Roosevelt, for example, except with the liberty of having her own office to her name.
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