As democratic socialists make inroads into mainstream US politics, one loaded word is doing a lot of work for their ideological opponents.
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Regardless of whether Americans think socialism is bad or good, or how they define it, most of them embrace socialist policies and programs – as long as no one calls them that.
Avi Lewis has taken over the leadership of the party his grandfather and father helped build.
Representation matters, but Zohran Mamdani’s story is about what’s possible when people organize across differences for a common cause.
A pragmatic form of socialism based on improving ordinary people’s lives is winning votes – and making powerful enemies – in equal measure.
George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist who opposed authoritarian leaders of the left and the right.
It’s time for a new brand of democratic liberalism that understands and harnesses the power of markets for social and economic good.
Bernie Sanders is effectively indicting the political economic structure in which the super-rich have amassed extraordinary sums of wealth at the expense of everyone else — and our shared planet.
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
In some ways, many of America’s CEOs are like closet socialists whose corporations offer a working model for what a socialist United States could look like.
Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
Winning isn’t everything. Bernie Sanders has had a profound effect on the Democratic Party.
“Socialist” has been a dirty word in American politics for decades – so why does socialism suddenly seem alive and well?
Sanders is not a socialist. And Denmark is not a utopian ideal to which Americans should aspire. Here’s why.
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