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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Crisis</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-lefts-crisis</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exogenous Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LEO PANITCH A common response of the left to the financial crisis that broke out in the USA in 2007-08 was often a kind of Michael Moore-type populist one: Why are you bailing the banks out? Let them go under. This kind of response was, of course, utterly irresponsible, with no thought given to what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya: Real Problems, No Answers</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/libya-real-problems-no-answers</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McReynolds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no-fly zone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID MCREYNOLDS Sheila Cooper was my first indirect contact with Libya &#8212; back in the 1980&#8242;s. Sheila had great secretarial skills, she enjoyed that work, and had been the essential person to serve as back-up to Peggy Duff. (I just checked Wikipedia for Peggy &#8212; an interesting entry but a deplorable &#8220;evaluation.&#8221;) Peggy was a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time for the Left to Get Serious</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/its-time-for-the-left-to-get-serious</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill fletcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; BILL FLETCHER Shortly after last November’s presidential election, I spoke at a forum discussing its implications. There I mentioned that we should anticipate a right-wing populist trend emerging, one that I would describe as “revanchist” – a term meaning “revenge-seeking.” Interestingly enough, a member of the International Socialist Organization dismissed my concerns as pessimistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Participatory Planning</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/in-defense-of-participatory-planning</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/in-defense-of-participatory-planning#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Schweickart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Devine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JASON SCHULMAN I appreciate David Schweickart&#8217;s response to my critique of his &#8220;Economic Democracy&#8221; vision, which helps me to clarify what I see as the problems with it as an &#8220;end-goal&#8221; for the socialist movement. (And I apologize if my tone was perhaps too antagonistic.) First, I&#8217;ll happily acknowledge the gray area between certain &#8220;market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/why-is-there-no-labor-party-in-the-united-states</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/why-is-there-no-labor-party-in-the-united-states#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? By Robin Archer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. $38.50. 368 pp. JASON SCHULMAN The traditional explanations as to why the United States is the only “advanced capitalist” country with no labor-based party have probably been heard by every socialist at least once.&#160; In the late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King and the Memphis Sanitation Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that Martin Luther King, civil rights leader and democratic socialist, died while supporting a struggle to form a union. Produced by the American Federation of State, County &#38; Municipal Employees (AFSCME).]]></description>
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		<title>DSA on the Health Care Struggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Socialists of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[single payer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FRANK LLEWELLYN DSA is joining with the AFL-CIO on Wednesday January 13th to call members of the House of Representatives to urge them to stand up for provisions in the House health care bill that are superior to the deeply flawed Senate Bill. We also urge members to call the White House, Senate Majority Leader [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Economics of Socialism</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-economics-of-socialism</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-economics-of-socialism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alec Nove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Schweickart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Devine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JASON SCHULMAN Back when democratic socialism was a young political movement there seemed to be little need to spell out exactly how a socialist economy would work. When asked, many socialists would have said something along these lines: “The working class will take political power and create a radically democratic state. It will then bring [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Relevance of Lenin Today</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-relevance-of-lenin-today</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-relevance-of-lenin-today#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exogenous Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lenin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Democracy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=2356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SAMUEL FARBER The left has been experiencing a situation somewhat similar to the World War I years. At that time, the abject failure of social democracy to oppose the imperialist war produced a major crisis on the left. This crisis was eventually &#8220;resolved&#8221; by the October Revolution and the development of a new revolutionary politics [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Michael Harrington and the Twilight of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/michael-harrington-and-the-twilight-of-capitalism</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/michael-harrington-and-the-twilight-of-capitalism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Harrington symposium]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JASON SCHULMAN Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770) Michael Harrington is rarely taken seriously as a Marxist thinker—indeed, his Marxism is rarely taken seriously at all, by either his critics or sympathizers. In his biography of Harrington, The Other American, [...]]]></description>
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