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		<title>Beyond “Charlie Brown”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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ROBERT FITCH
Anyone who watched Rich Trumka’s performance January 29th on Bill Moyers’Journal has got to be impressed by his impersonation of Charlie Brown.  The newly selected AFL-CIO chief won’t let organized labor’s repeated legislative, organizing and political failures keep him from pursuing the same discredited strategies – any more than Charlie Brown would give up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gallup-ing Socialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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CHRIS MAISANO
It seems as if all of the hysterical right-wing talk about creeping socialism might be doing some useful work for us after all. Last year, a Rasmussen poll showed that a bare majority of respondents said that they prefered capitalism to socialism, and that people under the age of 30 were almost evenly divided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard Zinn: In the American Grain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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SCOTT McLEMEE
Howard Zinn &#8212; whose A People’s History of the United States, first published by Harper &#38; Row in 1980, has sold some two million copies &#8212; died last week at the age of 87. His passing has inspired numerous tributes to his role in bringing a radical, pacifist perspective on American history to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do They Owe Us a Living?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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PETER FRASE
Serious debate about our visions for the future is always welcome, so it&#8217;s nice to see Jason Schulman and David Schweickart debating &#8220;market socialism&#8221; and related things on this site. I don&#8217;t have a lot more to add about formal models of the socialist economy, because frankly I&#8217;m not all that interested in them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two (Bad) Campaigns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eduardo Frei]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE
In a recent election, the complacent centrist candidate lost to a charming conservative.   A right-winger had not won this elected post in decades.  Many traditionally center-left voters stayed home or voted for the conservative to send a message to the political elites.  While many progressives feared this misguided way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time for the Left to Get Serious</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
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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 and unwarranted. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Participatory Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
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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 socialists&#8221;  like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Works Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Williams</dc:creator>
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ANDREW HOLT WILLIAMS
Over the past roughly year and a half, it&#8217;s become cliché to bring out comparisons to the 1930s when discussing what has happened, what might happen, and what still needs to be done in this country. While some call for nothing short of a revolution in how we deal with the financial sector [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austerity Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO
A couple months ago, I wrote a post titled The Coming Liberal Austerity Program. Well, it’s not just coming anymore. It’s here. 
In response to the Republican victory in last week’s special election in Massachusetts and the deficit paranoia that has gripped the right wing and orthodox economists, President Obama announced yesterday that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Economic Democracy (A Reply to Jason Schulman)</title>
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		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/on-economic-democracy-a-reply-to-jason-schulman#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democratic socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Devine]]></category>

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DAVID SCHWEICKART
Despite Jason Schulman&#8217;s condemnation of &#8220;market socialism,&#8221; a variant of which (the &#8220;most attractive,&#8221; he kindly says) I espouse, he and I are not too far apart, not on fundamental issues.  Although he thinks my model, which I call &#8220;Economic Democracy,&#8221; (henceforth ED) is &#8220;a valiant attempt to fry ice,&#8221; the model he endorses [...]]]></description>
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