4.06.2006

article | The Left Needs More Socialism

The most interesting article I read today was Ronald Aronson's piece in The Nation entitled "The Left Needs More Socialism."
"Among Americans it has long since become obvious that the left is doomed without a vision, a sense of direction and an effective call to arms. One of the reasons we are having such tough sledding nowadays is that we have been unable to develop our own compelling alternative to those created by the right and the center over the past generation and embodied in the politics of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. We need to point to a clearly different direction from the one in which the United States and the world are heading. We need to spell out a historical diagnosis and project, a strategy and tactics, and root these in widely shared ultimate values."
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I'm not sure what I think of Aronson's premise, but found it worth a midday read.

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