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We Know What You’re Against. What Are You For?

Peter Dreier Portside
A humane and decent society provides people with opportunity to fulfill their potential and find happiness and meaning, including meaningful work. Two key ingredients make this more likely-shared prosperity and robust democracy. Both are essential.

Milwaukee’s Proud History of Baseball — and Socialism

Peter Dreier Jacobin magazine
The Milwaukee Brewers are in the World Series for the first time since 1982. The small-market team’s success this season is a reminder of Milwaukee baseball’s progressive heritage and the city’s proud socialist history.

Tidbits-Oct. 22: Reader Comments: Susan Collins – No Friend of Injured Workers; Israel Has Destroyed Gaza, Now Southern Lebanon; New Meaning for Chainsaw Massacre; Trump Has Made Socialism Mainstream; Trump’s DEI; Jack Metzgar, Labor Educator – R.I.P.

Portside
Reader Comments: Susan Collins - No Friend of Injured Workers; Israel Has Destroyed Gaza, Now Southern Lebanon; New Meaning for Chainsaw Massacre; Trump Has Made Socialism Mainstream; Trump's DEI; Jack Metzgar, Labor Educator - R.I.P.;

Being Against Capitalism Isn’t Enough

Mike Beggs, Ben Burgis, and Bhaskar Sunkara Jacobin magazine
Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better.

Why Are the Democratic Socialists of America So Successful?

Akin Olla The Guardian
There’s an unsung reason for the organization’s success even as other leftwing groups face a bumpy road. DSA is growing not only because it reflects frustration over the status quo; it is growing also because it gives people a voice within a vehicle

Tidbits-Oct. 8: Reader Comments: Rape Culture and the Cornell Seven; Dilemmas of Socialist Governance of a Capitalist State; Statement From Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on the Third Anniversary of October 7; Hands Off Cuba – Let Cuba Live Virtual Event

Portside
Reader Comments: Rape Culture and the Cornell Seven; Dilemmas of Socialist Governance of a Capitalist State; Measles; Statement From Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on the Third Anniversary of October 7; Hands Off Cuba - Let Cuba Live Virtual Event; more
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