socialism

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  1/16/2023
  

  You Can't Understand MLK's Politics Without Understanding His Critique of Capitalism

  Adam Tooze discusses King's longstanding efforts to link racial discrimination and economic exploitation, as well as the working-class base of the civil rights movement. 

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  1/5/2023
  

  No Socialism in America?

  by Michael Kazin

  Utopian socialist Robert Owen's heralded visit to Congress in 1825 shows that doubts about the relationship of liberty and economic inequality, and the proposal of socialism as an alternative, have been part of the American political scene from the beginning. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/18/2022
  

  How the Government Used the First World War to Crush the American Left

  Adam Hochshild's book details the intersection of patriotism and legal repression that stifled the broad left in the United States, and explains how the war to "make the world safe for democracy" evinced an impoverished understanding of the term. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/15/2022
  

  The Nation's Most Prolific Censor – So Far

  by Adam Hochshild

  Operating out of the same building that would later house the Trump International Hotel, Postmaster General Albert Burleson used control of the mails to crush countless publishers deemed subversive. Most of his legal tools are still on the books today. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/15/2022
  

  Barbara Ehrenreich's Legacy is More than "Nickel and Dimed"

  by Lynne Segal

  The late writer's contributions to keeping a current of socialist radicalism in the feminist movement deserve recognition, too. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9/5/2022
  

  Eugene Debs: In a Just World, Every Day is Labor Day

  Read Debs's 1903 Labor Day Address in its entirety. 

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• SOURCE: History Today
  7/28/2022
  

  Review: Elizabeth Dore's Grassroots History of Socialism's Decline in Cuba

  The loosening of state control over Cuba's economy has delivered most benefits to white Cubans with relatives sending remittances from the United States to start businesses in Cuba. Afro-Cubans and migrants from poorer provinces have suffered. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/1/2022
  

  We Overlooked May Day This Year – We Aren't Alone in the US

  Historian Peter Linebaugh explains that the international day of labor solidarity has always sat uneasily with American nationalism. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/19/2022
  

  Can the Dems Learn Anything from Orwell?

  Are the Democrats trying to bridge a cultural chasm between themselves and the mass of voters they hope to persuade? Orwell's writing suggests so. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  4/5/2022
  

  Meet the Socialist Librarian Running to Lead the American Library Association

  Libraries are just one example of vital community institutions decimated by austerity politics and culture war battles; Emily Drabinksy says enough is enough. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  1/26/2022
  

  Don't Make Dorothy Day a Saint

  by Garry Wills

  As an admirer of the left-wing activist Dorothy Day, Garry Wills argues that the process of canonization would "miniaturize" her work and associations to fit within the narrow confines of sainthood, making her an object of prayer instead of a model for action. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  1/11/2022
  

  France's Socialists Adopted Neoliberalism and Punched their Tickets to Irrelevance

  "What was the history that brought the French left to its current state of crisis, and does it show what other countries are going to experience in the future?"

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/29/2021
  

  Another Buffalo Was Possible

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  India Walton seemed on track to become the first Black woman mayor in Buffalo, and the first socialist to lead a major city in decades. The sitting mayor rallied to defeat her, but we should still consider the possibility of more liberatory politics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/2/2021
  

  The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination

  by Daniel Immerwahr

  What happened to big-thinking utopianism as a response to national problems? 

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  3/30/2021
  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Progressive Catholicism

  by Walter G. Moss

  Although her religious upbringing is not the most prominent part of her public persona, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez follows a tradition of Catholic advocates for justice. 

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• 2/21/2021
  

  From Red Finn Halls to The Lincoln Brigade: Class Formation on Washington’s “Red Coast”

  by Jerry Lembcke

  If the current crisis revives interest in class as an analytical concept, a recent book on union organizing on the Washington state coast offers a model for reconstructing the work, community and social life of a community. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/28/2021
  

  From Revolution to Reformism

  by Adam Przeworski

  A new book of political theory excerpted here locates the decline of the Left in its adoption of reformist rhetoric that accommodated capitalism's preferences for fiscal stability and austerity.

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• SOURCE: N+1
  12/12/2020
  

  We Live in a Society

  by Gabriel Winant

  Despite lamentations that social media have replaced face-to-face social life, those media platforms are increasingly important as sites of human contact and interaction. Anyone seeking political change must recognize this power and organize social networks to supplant it. 

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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.”

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• 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.