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		<title>The Theater of Ideas</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-theater-of-ideas</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[longshoremen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of The Intelligent Homosexual&#8217;s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, written by Tony Kushner, and directed by Michael Grief LAWRENCE GULOTTA The new play by Tony Kushner is great fun, with many delightful Marxist asides and insights. The title was inspired by George Bernard Shaw&#8217;s The Intelligent Woman&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Marx Was Right&#8230;Again</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/why-marx-was-right-again</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MICHAEL HIRSCH At a time when plutocracy goes beyond a description of the American upper class to a prescription proffered by hired-gun editorialists and corporate flacks, or when the barely centrist Barack Obama is named a DSA flunky or when the parlous international economic order can be safely described as Greek socialists bearing debts, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Exception: An Interview With Jefferson Cowie</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-long-exception-an-interview-with-jefferson-cowie</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Our Movement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Cowie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Harrington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working class]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jefferson Cowie is a teacher, historian, and writer at Cornell University. As a social and political historian, his work focuses primarily on how class, inequality, and work shape American politics and culture. Professor Cowie was gracious enough to conduct an email interview with The Activist about his great new book Stayin&#8217; Alive: The 1970s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Television: In Praise of Roseanne Barr</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/class-television-in-praise-of-roseanne-barr</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/class-television-in-praise-of-roseanne-barr#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 18:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Marcotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roseanne Barr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER I never fully appreciated the sitcom Roseanne when it had its network TV run from 1988 to 1997. But I’m beginning to become a big fan of creator Roseanne Barr. This is, in part, due to a remarkable and much-discussed testimonial she gave in New York magazine, released this past week. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet as a Tool for Repression</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-internet-as-a-tool-for-repression</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-internet-as-a-tool-for-repression#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evgeny Morozov]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[online organizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RSA Animate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter Revolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER We often hear about the revolutionary power of the Internet to take down authoritarian regimes. Less often do we consider how online technologies can provide dastardly means for repressive governments to locate, monitor, and persecute dissidents. The geniuses over at the RSA Animate have recently posted an annotated talk by Evgeny Morozov. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Manning Marable</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/remembering-manning-marable</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/remembering-manning-marable#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[obituary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EMAHUNN CAMPBELL &#8220;To be Black and a socialist in America is to be a nonconformist.&#8221; This is the first line of Manning Marable&#8217;s classic 1983 book, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. This was my first introduction to the work of a great scholar of African-American studies at Columbia University, whose life was cut short last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Malcolm</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/remembering-malcolm</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/remembering-malcolm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socialist Workers Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Militant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EMAHUNN CAMPBELL The wait will soon be over. In April, Viking Adult will finally publish Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by the prominent Columbia University historian Manning Marable, widely expected to be the definitive biography of that complex figure. I recall speaking with Marable about this book during the 2007 Young Democratic Socialists conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A True Revolution of Values&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-true-revolution-of-values</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-true-revolution-of-values#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On April 4, 1967 &#8211; exactly one year to the day before his assassination while supporting a sanitation workers&#8217; strike in Memphis &#8211; Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the greatest speeches of all time at Riverside Church in New York. Titled &#8220;Beyond Vietnam &#8211; A Time to Break Silence,&#8221; King not only denounced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Gary Webb</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/remembering-gary-webb</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/remembering-gary-webb#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six years ago today, journalist Gary Webb shot himself in the head. It ended the sad story of a man who should have been celebrated for his heroic work as an investigative reporter, but instead became a victim of the corrupt and fearful culture of mainstream journalism. We should remember him today, and take two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideology Über Alles</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/ideology-uber-alles</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/ideology-uber-alles#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inequality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO An interesting study on Americans&#8217; attitudes regarding inequality and wealth distribution has been making the rounds recently. It highlights once again the ideology problem that plagues any attempt to reconstruct left/social democratic/socialist/whatever politics in the U.S. The researchers asked survey respondents to choose between three unlabeled pie charts representing the social structures of [...]]]></description>
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