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3 weeks ago | 
northsouthnotes.org | Maurice Isserman |Vincent Bevins
The year is 1954. The Second Red Scare is underway, and Joseph McCarthy is working to decimate what is left of the Communist Party USA, which issued hundreds of thousands of membership cards in the first half of the 20th century. The Young Socialist League meets to discuss its position on a major geopolitical question.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
libertiesjournal.com | Maurice Isserman |Jake Harrison
In 1952, a year after I was born and a decade and a half before I became an active participant on the American left, Daniel Bell published a book called Marxian Socialism in America, the first serious scholarly examination of the subject. He considered, among other questions, why the traditional Marxist parties in the United States had by then descended into abject political isolation.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Peter Dreier |Maurice Isserman
A collection of fringe radical groups are calling for demonstrations in Chicago this August at the Democratic National Convention — a “March on the DNC” for Palestine. We study political movements, and we’ve participated in more than a few ourselves. We share the concerns of many Americans about Israel’s actions in Gaza, the need for an immediate cease-fire and the release of hostages and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
msn.com | Maurice Isserman
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Maurice Isserman
For more than a century, the American left has been pulled in two directions. The better one seeks revolutionary change through the democratic process, as the Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs did in the early 20th century. Emulating the abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, Debs tried to convince people of many political persuasions to expand the promise of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence.
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May 22, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Maurice Isserman |Lovia Gyarkye |Alyssa Battistoni |Michael Kazin
Sins of Omission Arthur Miller’s landmark play The Crucible illuminates the difference between informing and truth-telling. ▪ Spring 2024 John Proctor Jr., a Puritan settler of Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, was convicted of witchcraft in a Salem court on August 5, 1692, and hanged two weeks later. He was one of twenty men and women executed in the Salem witchcraft trials.
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May 22, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Timothy Shenk |Nicole-Ann Lobo |Maurice Isserman |Matthew Sitman
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
alpinist.com | Maurice Isserman
[To honor the life of Tom Hornbein, who died on May 6, 2023, at his home in Estes Park, Colorado, at age 92, we are sharing this feature story from Alpinist 73 (2021) by mountaineering historian Maurice Isserman. Hornbein was one of America’s greatest climbers, best known for completing the first ascent of Mt. Everest’s West Ridge with Willi Unsoeld in 1963. He also earned distinction in his long career as an anesthesiologist and advanced research on the effects of altitude on the human body.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Maurice Isserman
Michael Harrington criticized the antiwar movement of the 1960s for failing to adopt an “anti-Stalinist” perspective regarding the Vietnam War, i.e., a viewpoint that would be equally critical of both sides in the conflict. The fact that Harrington's perspective won few adherents in the antiwar struggle was a product in significant measure of the failures of the anti-Stalinists themselves.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Kristin Schall |Sam Heft-Luthy |Adam H. Johnson |Maurice Isserman
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