The Big Scary "S" Word

During the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders’s presidential primary run unleashed a national wave of interest in socialism. But socialism in the United States remains plagued by conflicting definitions. Is socialism dictatorship or democracy? Norway or Venezuela? Reform or revolution? Weaving together hidden episodes of history, verité footage, expert interviews, and lively animated sequences, the film shows where American socialism has been, explores why and how it was suppressed, and imagines what a renewed American socialism might look like, directly from today’s leading left thinkers and socialists: Cornel West, Naomi Klein, Vivek Chibber, Alexandria, among others.