The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Party of America
Despite its ultimate demise, the Socialist Party shows us that the United States possesses no special immunity against socialist politics.
Issue No. 23 | Fall 2016
The United States are today certainly the most important and interesting of all civilized countries. Not England, but America, shows us our future today, so far as any country can show another’s future, considering that every country has its own peculiar development. Capitalism makes its greatest progress in America. There it reigns with the most unlimited brutality and carries the class antagonisms to a climax …
The future which America shows us would be very cheerless if it did not reveal at the same time a growth of the Socialist movement. Nowhere are all the means of political power so shamelessly purchasable as in America: administration, popular representation, courts, police and press; nowhere are they so directly dependent on the great capitalists. And nowhere is it more apparent than there that a proletariat with a Socialist conscience is the only means of saving the nation.
Despite its ultimate demise, the Socialist Party shows us that the United States possesses no special immunity against socialist politics.
Looking back at the Sanders campaign and the struggles to come.
Bernie would have won and nobody wants Bloomberg. Elites may disagree, but American voters aren’t looking for “sensible” centrist candidates.
Over the years, efforts of US workers to build a party that represents their interests have come up short. Why?
How Cornel West went from liberal media darling to pariah.
What would we have to do to make sure our Election Day choices in 2036 aren’t as miserable as they are in 2016?
Grading a century of liberal film presidents.
With lofty promises, the Clinton Foundation helped found an industrial park in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Photographer Robert Shook traveled there to document how things went terribly wrong.
With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in the working class.
A reply to Seth Ackerman
Lesson from the Podesta email leak: Clinton surrogates are eager to rule, but not very bright.
Because sometimes words mean other words.
In case you haven’t noticed …
Capital’s third favorite party sounds a lot like its first.
It’ll be more meaningful — but hopefully won’t involve endless meetings.
In the age of Trump, having history on our side isn’t enough. We need your support.