evidence: If IPS’ sympathy for the communist world was consistent, it was also eclectic. The Soviet Union is almost never praised. Communist China has been praised on occasion. So has China’s communist enemy, Vietnam. And so has Vietnam’s communist enemy, Cambodia. Occasionally support is expressed for the communist regimes of Eastern Europe; more often for those of the Third World, notably Cuba, and for communist movements not yet installed in power. There is no strict consistency. Nor is there any evidence of discipline or a party line. 97 [...] Prominent IPS leaders, including Richard Barnet, Marcus Raskin, and Saul Landau, all were "eager to refute any suggestion that they are pro-Soviet." In the 1980s, IPS director Robert Borosage stated that he felt that the political systems of both the United States and the Soviet Union led "to dead ends," though he considered the Soviet failures to have produced interesting "social experiments" in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Cuba, and Nicaragua. 159 In the introduction to his 1973 book Being and Doing, Raskin criticized the Soviet Union for maintaining "the feudal and bourgeois values of hierarchy based on privilege," yet he also characterized Marxism as a "positive social philosoph[y]." 160 [...] - Tom Kertscher. "Bernie Sanders on Target Saying 3 Richest Have as Much Wealth as Bottom Half of all Americans." Politifact. July 3, 2019. Available at: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/03/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-target-saying-3-richest-have-much-w/