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The winds may blow leftward, but that's a far cry from a 1917-style workers uprising.

Some bad news: Bernie Sanders' support is substantially middle class. His policies are only very generously described as socialism at all, crucially he does not even begin to propose a fundamental break with private property or capitalism.

The rise of Bernie Sanders may be a nice development, and his hypothetical election might well bring benefits. But it's not going to be a workers revolution in any meaningful 20th century sense of the word.

Trump may be all that, but he was elected by appealing to the working class. Bernie Sanders has as much in common with you and I as a mouse has with a slightly smaller moose. Few of the revolutionary icons of the 20th century were themselves working class (Marx himself was remarkably posh). The important metric for a working class uprising is what the working class does (specifically, that it rises up), not the class background of the person they rise behind.