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What We Forgot About Socialism: Lessons From the Red Riviera

Kristen R. Ghodsee Socialist Project
When an economy is guided by social purpose instead of profit, it can serve the common good and lay a foundation for long-term progress, a lesson that we should all remember as we face the existential threat of the climate crisis.

Coalition Socialism

Chris Maisano Dissent Magazine
The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

Who Was Eugene Debs?

Michael K. Smith CounterPunch
"I ask no mercy and I plead for no immunity. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice.”

Friday Nite Videos | October 24, 2025

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Over Half of Democrats Have ‘Positive View of Socialism.’ We Asked Trump Voters About Grocery Prices. Could Cleverly Sliced Paper Revolutionize Human Waste? A House of Dynamite | Movie Trailer. Concerned New Yorker Rhonda LaCenzo on Zohran Mamdani.

Tidbits-Oct 16 -Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-By ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump’s Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; US Socialism Today; All-Out for Oct 18

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Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-by ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump's Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; What's Happening in US Socialism; All-Out for Oct 18;

The Rift in American Socialism

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.
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