I'm not sure that I agree with the critique though, as a practical matter, even though I think the dialogue is intrinsically very positive, and it's a wonderful thing for people like Foner to take advantage of any opportunity to talk about US radical history and insist that others do so.
I think talking about Denmark might actually be more relevant to the matter at hand than what happened in the US in the 1890s. It's more relevant, arguably, to talking about health care for all. It's more relevant, arguably, to talking about family and medical leave. Western Europe made a choice after World War II to have capitalism without having poverty. The United States made a different choice. We can revisit that choice. The fact that Western Europe made that choice and lived to tell the tale is a key fact that we should compel people in the US to grapple with. Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected] > wrote: > I love this. I hope it inspires a thousand more pieces like it. > > > > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > (202) 448-2898 x1 > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> http://www.thenation.com/article/how-bernie-sanders-should-talk-about-democratic-socialism/ >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > >
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