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WEBThe Labor Intellectuals. Nelson Lichtenstein Spring 2024. The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture. An independent quarterly magazine, publishing some of America’s most exciting long-form political and cultural criticism since 1954.
Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
WEBWhy Free College Is Necessary. Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse. Student debt activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014 (Light Brigading / Flickr)
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
WEBCuban socialism has been a “socialism from above.”. Its features include supremacy of central power, the priority of the “official” truth, and limited possibilities for self-organization—qualities that have varied in importance in the post-revolutionary period, but that are demonstrably connected with one another.
Legacies of Cold War Liberalism - Dissent Magazine
WEBLegacies of Cold War Liberalism. To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War. Michael Brenes and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Winter 2021. President-elect John F. Kennedy with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. on January 9, 1960 (Bettmann via Getty Images)
The Nativist Tradition - Dissent Magazine
WEBIn Denvir’s reading, just as waves of migration dramatically transformed America’s social terrain, so too did nativist ideology transform and adopt new rituals to justify and retain white power in the land of proclaimed universal liberty. Lee and Denvir’s histories of anti-immigrant politics are bracing but bleak.
The Port Huron Statement at Fifty - Dissent Magazine
WEBThe Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic Society, written fifty years ago this June, is the most ambitious, the most specific, and the most eloquent manifesto in the history of the American Left. It is also, at just over 25,000 words, undoubtedly the longest one. But it had to be lengthy to accomplish its aim—to propose an entire ...
Liberal or Social Democrat? - Dissent Magazine
WEBThere is another quip, the source of which I don’t know: a social democrat is a socialist who compromised with reality, whereas a liberal is an anarchist who compromised with reality. Liberals moved from defending free trade against the yoke of privileged protectionism in the nineteenth century, to promoting the active interference of ...
Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony
WEBCedric Johnson ▪ Summer 2021 Huey P. Newton (Wikimedia Commons/Richard Aoki Collection) . In August 1970, Roy Wilkins, the sexagenarian leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), used his syndicated column to criticize Huey P. Newton for urging the formation of an all-black fighting unit to assist the Vietnamese National Liberation Front.
Why the Left Needs Religion - Dissent Magazine
WEBBut there are two reasons why Christians should remain an important left contingent, and a valuable resource for the left. First, because the kind of mass politics necessary to achieve left goals will rely in part on reaching the world’s approximately 2 billion Christians. Second, because Christianity can help challenge reigning neoliberal ...
Introduction: The New Feminism - Dissent Magazine
WEBSarah Leonard ▪ Winter 2013 Artwork by Imp Kerr . A feminist conspiracy couldn’t have planted the number of trend pieces about women we’ve seen this year. Touting the new economic dominance of women, Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men became a bestseller alongside Naomi Wolf’s Vagina: A New Biography.The Atlantic published popular articles such as “Why Women Still Can’t Have It ...
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