[COLOR=rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.85)]In that interview, Sanders pointed to a worker-owned asbestos plant in Lowell, Vermont, as an example of the kind of worker-owned enterprise that he envisioned in the economy of the future.


I feel like his endorsement of asbestos is about as bad as his hyperbolic analogy involving chattel slavery. Both are poor form with the benefit of hindsight, but both took place in the 1970's.[/COLOR]