socialism

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.”

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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?

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 9/15/19
  

  Eastern European Historian Emanuela Grama on Romania’s Heritage

  by Erik Moshe

  “The best historian is a kind of magician; one that can transform a puzzle of disparate dusty documents into a persuasive analysis and an electric narrative.”

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• 8/25/19
  

  A History of the Fight for Universal Healthcare and the Cry of Socialism

  by Donne Levy

  This drama in which Democrats move toward universal healthcare and Republicans cry socialism has happened before, and it is instructive to analyze this history with a view toward what can be expected in the future.