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SOURCE: MSNBC
10/23/2020

Republicans Have a History of Weaponizing 'Socialism.' But Do They Understand what it Is?

by Kevin M. Kruse

“Socialism,” Harry Truman argued in 1952, “is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”

9/20/2020

“We Are Ourselves”: Review of For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton

by Eric Laursen

Maurice Brinton--the pseudonym of a British neurologist--authored an influential series of works of radical political thought that urged the British left to move away from rigid party structures and doctrinal disputes toward social movements.

9/6/2020

On Labor Day, Think of Bread and Roses

by William Lambers

On Labor Day, remember the demands of striking textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Working people deserve more than bare subsistence; they're entitled to dignity and pleasure too.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
9/4/2020

I Danced in the Streets after Allende’s Victory in Chile 50 Years Ago. Now I See its Lessons for Today

by Ariel Dorfman

The Chilean author Ariel Dorfman warns that while his country elected a democratic socialist in a landmark election, it was unprepared to deal with violent and ruthless efforts to maintain the status quo. Joe Biden is no socialist, but if he wins, his administration and Americans at large must be similarly prepared.

SOURCE: The New Republic
8/17/2020

Socialism Is as American as Apple Pie

by Bruce Bartlett

The ideology that Republicans love to hate is woven through the fabric of the country.

5/31/2020

The Decline and Fall of Socialist Zionism (Review)

by Ralph Seliger

A new book examines the diminished influence of left and labor parties in Israeli politics.

SOURCE: Jacobin
5/23/2020

You Should Know More About A. Philip Randolph, One of America’s Greatest Socialists

As the Left attempts to chart a new course in the wake of the Bernie Sanders campaign, there’s no better time to learn from America’s most underrated socialist, labor leader, and civil rights legend, A. Philip Randolph.

SOURCE: New York Times
5/13/2020

These Young Socialists Think They Have Courage. They Don’t.

by Mitchell Abidor

If Mr. Trump is re-elected, many DSA members could spend the next four years suffering little more than the pangs of political outrage. But millions of less fortunate people would suffer real consequences.

SOURCE: Washington Post
5/13/2020

Democrats’ Covid-19 Relief Plan Shows Charges of Socialism have Lost their Bite

by Merlin Chowkwanyun

McCarthyism's residual effects are on display any time an ambitious domestic policy proposal is denounced as “socialist.”

SOURCE: The Nation
4/27/2020

Responses to an ‘Open Letter to the New New Left’

The Nation publishes two critical responses to the recent "Open Letter to the New New Left," which criticized a perceived unwillingness by young leftists to unite around Joe Biden's candidacy to defeat Donald Trump.

SOURCE: New York Times
3/10/2020

We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Places to Understand Sanders’s Socialism

by Richard White

Detractors like to equate Senator Bernie Sanders’s socialism with Soviet and Chinese Communism, but they’re swinging at the wrong century, the wrong country and the wrong socialism.

SOURCE: USA Today
3/5/2020

Obama and I took a class about socialism's dark side. Bernie would have learned a lot.

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Imagine if Sanders praised Hitler for reducing cigarette smoking or Mussolini for making the trains run on time. The American left would be up in arms.

SOURCE: Washington Examiner
3/03/2020

So What if They Made the Trains Run on Time?

by Rafael Medoff

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s praise for some policies of the Cuban and Soviet regimes speaks to a broader question that has long attracted public interest: Should our view of authoritarian governments be affected by the fact that their trains run on time?

SOURCE: New York Daily News
2/29/2020

Democratic Socialism All Around: What Bernie Sanders’s New York Can Teach Us about America’s Future

by Joshua Freeman

Mid-20th-century New York had serious flaws, including poverty, economic inequality (though not as bad as today), and racial and gender discrimination. But it stands as an example of what can be done when the power of government is combined with a capacious vision of human rights, equality, and democracy.

SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/2/2020

How Socialist is Bernie Sanders?

The self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders’s rise in a time of political upheaval, the historian Michael Kazin argues, is less shocking than people think.

2/23/20

Bernie Sanders, Social Democracy, and Democratic Socialism

by Gary Dorrien

Sanders conceives democratic socialism as the fitting name for his belief that a living wage, universal healthcare, a complete education, affordable housing, a clean environment, and a secure retirement are economic rights. These six economic rights come from Franklin Roosevelt’s 1944 Economic Bill of Rights.

SOURCE: Washington Post
2/13/20

Socialists were winning U.S. elections long before Bernie Sanders and AOC

The “Pledge of Allegiance” was written by a Christian socialist in 1892. Eugene V. Debs ran for president on a socialist ticket five times; in 1912, he got nearly a million votes.

SOURCE: Time
2/12/20

Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire Victory Is a Big Deal for Socialism in America. Here's What to Know About the History of the Idea

Sanders’ success in both Iowa and New Hampshire may signal that a version of American socialism is again on the rise.

1/5/20

Capitalism Versus Socialism: Did Capitalism Really Win?

by Walter G. Moss

The main task of voters in 2020 and thereafter will not be to choose whether we want capitalism or democratic socialism. Rather, it will be to decide the best pragmatic mix of the two (and best presidential candidate) to further the common good.

SOURCE: NY Times
10/22/19

The Enduring Power of Anticapitalism in American Politics

by Jamelle Bouie

From Debs to Sanders to Ocasio-Cortez, an ideal persists.