It is remarkable, is it not, how Sanders has re-introduced a meaningful discussion of "socialism" to mainstream public discourse in the United States? Why, just the other day I was watching Stephen Colbert on the teevee and he was talking to Bernie Sanders about socialism. Whooda thunk it? It's deja vu all over again.
That North Star article was pretty cool. We all know the story of the Old Left and the New Left but there does seem to have been an "overcorrection" of sorts. I'm glad the author of that piece is hammering away at the need to put the economic populism issues back at the top of the marquee. It does seem that most of the people doing that in the United States right now are doing so as Democrats, as the author of the North Star piece acknowledges in passing. It seems that the author of that piece is engaging in a kind of "liberation theology," but rather than introducing Marxism gently to Christians, is introducing mass politics gently to socialists. Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Marvin Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you also come around to this view, Louis? It resembles the position > of Kashama Sawant’s Socialist Alternative group which is participating in > the Sanders campaign, does it not? > > > On Sep 22, 2015, at 5:16 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12369 > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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