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.
Parties and Movements - Dissent Magazine
WEBSheri Berman, Andre Pagliarini, Zachariah Mampilly and Nick Serpe ▪ Winter 2024 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at a meeting with members of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in March 2022 (Ricardo Chicarelli/AFP via Getty Images) . For many socialists, the classic political model comes from the left-wing parties grounded in workers’ movements that formed in Europe ...
Know Your Enemy: Your Questions, Answered - Dissent Magazine
WEBOct 30, 2023 · Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 30, 2023 . Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here.You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.
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.
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 ...
An American History of the Socialist Idea - Dissent Magazine
WEBSeven years ago, I reviewed in these pages the first major history of the American Socialist Party to appear in several decades: Jack Ross’s The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History (2015), an exhaustive and, for the reader, exhausting tome whose text ran to roughly 600 pages before the election tables, notes, and index, which ran for 200 more.
Ferenc Fehér - Dissent Magazine
WEBAndrew Arato Winter 1995. My friend Ferenc Fehér was a remarkably learned, eloquent, brilliant man. But he did not live a happy life, and suffered more than his share of injustice in three worlds. The Nazis murdered his father when he was still a boy. Then they tortured and almost killed young Ferenc as well.
How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America - Dissent Magazine
WEBHart–Celler was among the “Great Society” reforms enacted under the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Because it eliminated the restrictive nationality-based immigration quotas that had prevailed since 1924, the law was widely heralded as an anti-discrimination measure. Yet as Coleman notes, “few of the bill’s supporters or opponents ...
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
WEBMichael Walzer ▪ Spring 2020 The construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris (Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) . Is liberalism an “ism” like all the other “isms”? I think it once was. In the nineteenth century and for some years in the twentieth, liberalism was an encompassing ideology: free markets, free trade, free speech, open borders, a minimal state, radical ...
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