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Nov 20, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Chris Maisano |Nick Serpe |Harold Meyerson |Sheri Berman
The Living Fraternity of Militants Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression. ▪ Fall 2024 Jorge Semprún lived an uncommonly eventful life, even by the extreme standards of the twentieth century.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Chris Maisano
From one point of view, the aphorism “you get what you pay for” does not apply when it comes to US electoral democracy. Enormous amounts of money are spent on elections in this country, but few would say their exorbitant cost is a mark of quality. The total cost of federal elections has increased with each election cycle, but the 2020 election marked a quantum leap in the level of political spending.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Sean Byrnes |Timothy Shenk |Chris Maisano |Sarah Jones
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
portside.org | Chris Maisano
What We Get Wrong About White Workers Published August 26, 2024 Since at least 2016, when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, political commentators have become increasingly interested in the phenomenon of class dealignment — that is, the separation of working-class voters from the parties that ostensibly represent them. In these discussions, white working-class voters’ growing disillusionment with the Democratic Party took center stage.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Chris Maisano
On the night of the shock election victory of the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP), Parisian leftists did what they always do on special occasions: they rallied in huge numbers in the capital’s Place de la République. Amid a sea of faces, flags, and fists punching the air, one chant in particular stood out for its deeper historical resonance: ¡No pasarán!, or “They shall not pass!” The slogan is Spanish, not French.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Chris Maisano
On the night of the shock election victory of the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP), Parisian leftists did what they always do on special occasions: they rallied in huge numbers in the capital’s Place de la République. Amid a sea of faces, flags, and fists punching the air, one chant in particular stood out for its deeper historical resonance: ¡No pasarán!, or “They shall not pass!” The slogan is Spanish, not French.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Chris Maisano
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both old men, born four years apart during the 1940s. Biden is eighty-one and Trump is seventy-seven; the average life expectancy for men in the United States is seventy-three years. If Biden wins reelection, he would be eighty-five years old at the end of his second term; if Trump retakes the Oval Office, he would be eighty-one at the end of his second term.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Chris Maisano
Bayard Rustin is having a moment. A brilliant organizer and strategist, Rustin was one of the most important figures of the twentieth-century US left. His influence, while enormous, was largely felt behind the scenes during his lifetime, to the point that his biographer, John D’Emilio, saw fit to title his book Lost Prophet. Today, the prophet is no longer lost. Rustin, a feature biopic produced by the Obamas’ production company, just debuted on Netflix.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
socialistforum.dsausa.org | Chris Maisano
The USA has a unique democratic socialist tradition. Let us carry it forward as we fight the battles of our own time. A fellow Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member recently told me I’m the first person they met who joined the organization because of Michael Harrington. It’s true – I joined DSA in the late 1990s largely because of Harrington’s influence.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Chris Maisano
“Don’t trust anyone over thirty.” This iconic 1960s phrase was coined by Jack Weinberg, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. In Weinberg’s telling, he almost thoughtlessly tossed the line off during an interview with a reporter whose questioning implied that student activists were just a bunch of Communist dupes. “I told him we had a saying in the movement that we don’t trust anybody over thirty,” Weinberg recalled.
