The New Socialists - Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018: Corey Robin

The New Socialists – Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018: Corey Robin

/ October 26, 2016 / Comments Off on The New Socialists – Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018: Corey Robin / PT News
Throughout most of American history, the idea of socialism has been a hopeless, often vaguely defined dream. So distant were its prospects at midcentury that the best definition Irving Howe and Lewis Coser, editors of the socialist periodical Dissent, could come up with in 1954 was this: “Socialism is the name of our desire.”

That may be changing. Public support for socialism is growing. Self-identified socialists like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib are making inroads into the Democratic Party, which the political analyst Kevin Phillips once called the “second-most enthusiastic capitalist party” in the world. Membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the country, is skyrocketing,especially among young people.

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