socialism

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/20/19
  

  Democrats are holding their convention in Milwaukee. The city’s socialist past is an asset.

  by Tula Connell

  With the announcement of Milwaukee as the site of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, political opponents wasted no time in raising the specter of the city’s socialist past.

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• 3/24/19
  

  What Democratic Socialism Is and Is Not

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Of course, democratic socialism might not be what you want.  But let’s not pretend that it’s something that it’s not.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  3/7/19
  

  Historians Nathan Connolly and Ed Ayers Give A History Of "Socialism" As A Scare Tactic In American Politics

  “Before it really became a dirty word, it became a very popular word."

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• 3/3/19
  

  Is Bernie Sanders Actually A Democratic Socialist?

  by Michael Sheng

  "For the sake of history, please tell your voters what you really believe, and don’t just throw out a label without a precise definition."

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 2/12/19
  

  Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism

  by Jill Lepore

  Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/14/19
  

  Beyond Rosa Luxemburg: five more women of the German revolution you need to know about

  by Ingrid Sharp and Corinne Painter

  There were other women who played an active role in the German revolution in cities across the country. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/8/19
  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says ‘call me a radical,’ a loaded word with a long history

  The word, used throughout history as both a pejorative and a badge of honor, has deep roots in American political rhetoric.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  1/3/19
  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t the first self-described socialist elected to the House.

  by David Greenberg

  Here's some historical perspective on socialists in Congress.

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• SOURCE: politico
  9-7-18
  

  The New Socialism Is More American Than You Think (And Also More Radical)

  by Jedediah Purdy

  Much of today’s “socialism” was once the bread and butter of the Democratic Party.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  8-26-18
  

  Venezuela’s Tyranny of Bad Ideas

  by Daniel Pipes

  Socialism was a proven failure, but Hugo Chávez got his countrymen to try it.

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• 8/19/18
  

  Are American Workers Really Allergic to Socialism?

  by Chris Wright

  A neglected moment in labor history from the 1930s suggests the answer is no.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5-2-17
  

  Hatch history lesson for Trump: US would have gone 'straight to socialism' without the filibuster

  Senator Orrin Hatch criticized President Donald Trump Tuesday over his call to end the filibuster, saying the US "would have gone straight to socialism" without the Senate rule.

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• SOURCE: LAWCHA
  7-12-16
  

  There aren’t suddenly millions of socialists in America.

  by Sharon McConnell-Sidorick

  Carl Mackley’s story proves it.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-20-15
  

  How Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Democratic Socialism

  by Eric Foner

  Instead of looking to Europe, Sanders could evoke the rich heritage of American radicalism.

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  5-5-15 (accessed)
  

  Bernie Sanders's Presidential Bid Represents a Long Tradition of American Socialism

  by Peter Dreier

  Long deployed by the right as an epithet, this form of left-wing populism is as American as apple pie.

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-31-13
  

  Jonathan Freedland: Review of Jonathan Sperber's "Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life"

  Jonathan Freedland is an editorial page columnist for The Guardian of London.The Karl Marx depicted in Jonathan Sperber’s absorbing, meticulously researched biography will be unnervingly familiar to anyone who has had even the most fleeting acquaintance with radical politics. Here is a man never more passionate than when attacking his own side, saddled with perennial money problems and still reliant on his parents for cash, constantly plotting new, world-changing ventures yet having trouble with both deadlines and personal hygiene, living in rooms that some might call bohemian, others plain “slummy,” and who can be maddeningly inconsistent when not lapsing into elaborate flights of theory and unintelligible abstraction.

• SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
  3-25-13
  

  Polly Toynbee: Labour Needs to Recapture the Spirit and Nerve of 1945

  Polly Toynbee is a columnist for the Guardian. She was formerly BBC social affairs editor, columnist and associate editor of the Independent, co-editor of the Washington Monthly and a reporter and feature writer for the Observer...Here we are in the worst crisis of our lifetime, in the depths a long slump with no end in sight – demand dead, companies hoarding cash, most cuts still to come and bound to depress future growth. The bottom half lose most as real wages fall, while rents, food and fuel prices rise. Nothing gets better as deficit and debt soar. What better time for Ken Loach's new documentary, Spirit of 45, a patchwork of old documentaries and memories of the coming to power of the postwar Labour government, full of hope. In a breathless few years, Labour implemented its remarkably radical programme, creating the NHS, nationalising coal, steel, rail, road transport and electricity, initiating a mighty house-building programme. Loach's film is a hymn to the Labour party manifesto of 1945 – the tone would make as good a text for 2015 as back then.