socialism
2020 elections and organizational questions dominate Democratic Socialists of America convention
August 6, 2019“Unity is hard to build,” one delegate said. “It’s messy. There will be bumps in the road. It can be frustrating, but it’s something we have to deal with.”
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Socialist elected officials speak to the press at DSA convention
August 5, 2019“It is incumbent upon us to reclaim the narrative, to reclaim what socialism means and what it looks like."
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Television and Tito in new exhibitions at the Wende Museum
August 2, 2019I remember thinking, on my forays into Eastern European socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, that politics aside, most people’s lives ambled along pretty uneventfully. The Wende exhibition confirms this impression.
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North Korea navigates economic reform in a sea of sanctions
July 24, 2019When the state delivers apartments, education, and medical care for free, wages might not mean much, but money counts in the new DPRK.
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AOC & Co. are not communists—I should know
July 23, 2019As a younger man, I was organized as a communist not via Moscow, Russia, and the KGB, but in Youngstown, Ohio, by U.S. Steel and the collapse of the steel industry.
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