socialism

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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. 

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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.”