as for dr. wolff...

it's funny to see dr. wolff present himself as a protector of the new deal, because his academic work was actually written largely as a criticism of it. mr. wolff is known nowadays as an advocate of workplace democracy, but his claim to fame was actually a scathing critique of the new deal as a co-option of socialism; his central academic thesis, the thing that got people to notice him, was a series of papers arguing that the purpose of the new deal was to stop socialism, and that it worked. while it comes off as a conspiracy theory on first glance, it is actually mainstream scholarship to acknowledge that fdr intended to save capitalism from itself, not destroy it.

fdr was a capitalist to his bones, and richard wolff made a career out of taking him to task for it.

i've also noticed in several posts during the past that he has a tendency to view facts pragmatically. he's a marxist; they're all like that.

but, the point i want to make is that it seems as though dr. wolff likes to imagine that sanders is far more like he is than he actually is, that he may be suffering from the fallacy of projection and that he would likely be disappointed by what he actually gets.