Preliminary notes on the New Deal
One of the most common complaints from professional liberals about Obama is that he has failed to deliver on the hopes they had for a new New Deal. After reading Alan Brinkley’s slim (116 pages) but...
View ArticleThe House He Lived In: Conversations with Fred Baker
https://vimeo.com/37440591 Last June I attended a memorial meeting for film-maker Fred Baker, best known for his documentary “Lenny Bruce Without Tears”. As is customary for such events, others and I...
View ArticleProgressives for Obama, version 2.0
On March 25, 2008 Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Barbara Ehrenreich, and Danny Glover issued a statement launching “Progressives for Obama” that included a number of endorsers with impeccable Marxist...
View ArticleMickey Rooney, Master of Putting On a Show, Dies at 93
NY Times, April 7, 2014 Mickey Rooney, Master of Putting On a Show, Dies at 93 By ALJEAN HARMETZ Mickey Rooney at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. in 2012....
View ArticleThe “accidental” killing of Akai Gurley was no accident
As the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri was calculating how to avoid bringing killer cop Darren Wilson to trial, another ignominious homicide took place in the Louis H. Pink Housing Project in...
View ArticleCalifornia snapshots from “Campaign of the Century”
Reading Greg Mitchell’s “Campaign of the Century” provides insights not only into Upton Sinclair’s 1934 DP “EPIC” campaign for governor of California but the social history of the Great Depression as...
View ArticleDeepening Contradictions: Identity Politics and Steelworkers
She argues that affirmative action divides the working class COUNTERPUNCH DECEMBER 2, 2016 Deepening Contradictions: Identity Politics and Steelworkers Although the question of identity politics has...
View ArticleFDR and the Little Steel strike
COUNTERPUNCH DECEMBER 23, 2016 FDR and the Little Steel Strike by LOUIS PROYECT In countless articles during the 2016 presidential election and reaching a crescendo after Trump’s victory, pundits such...
View ArticleFDR made Donald Trump look “woke” by comparison
Greg Robinson: In contrast, the President lent credence to the wildest and most unsubstantiated anti-Japanese rumors. A few weeks after Executive Order 9066 was signed, for example, Roosevelt told his...
View ArticleBernie Sanders and the New Deal
As might be expected, the Jacobin/DSA tendency is beside itself over Bernie Sanders’s speech that by now follows a familiar script. Just compare these excerpts from 3 different speeches following the...
View ArticleNo, Seth Ackerman, Norman Thomas did not think the New Deal was “socialist”
After Bernie Sanders equated the New Deal with “democratic socialism”, the Jacobin intellectuals have been pirouetting like Nureyev trying to make this sound consistent with their neo-Kautskyism. I...
View ArticleWhat Bernie Sees in the New Deal? Not the same thing as Marxists–obviously
Micah Uetricht Seth Ackerman Jacobin’s Managing Editor Micah Uetricht did a podcast interview with Jacobin Executive Editor Seth Ackerman recently and now you can read the transcript on Jacobin titled...
View ArticleWas there anything “socialist” about CIO officialdom’s alliance with FDR?
UAW President Walter Reuther conferring with President Harry S. Truman in the Oval Office, 1952 On October 2nd, Jacobin published an interview with Jake Altman titled “The Socialist Party in New...
View ArticleLooking past the plant-gate to understand white supremacy
Inside a Russian factory before the revolution In a recent Jacobin article titled “Jim Clyburn Is Wrong About FDR and the New Deal,” Paul Heideman made the case that despite FDR’s failure to use his...
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