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SOURCE: The Nation
2/6/2023
Irony Alert: GOP Stages Anti-Socialist Show Vote while Preparing to Convene in the Most Socialist City in America
by John Nichols
"When the House denounced “the horrors of socialism,” those legislators made the case that socialism was—and is—a part of what makes Milwaukee great."
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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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