6 hours ago by David Swindle

How many poor people have progressives starved since 1917? It’s a good question and somebody should do the research and publish it.Russia was the breadbasket of Europe until progressives seized power in that year and started instituting policies to “share the wealth.” For the next 70 years until soc ...

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2 days ago by David Swindle

A new scholarly study by two civil rights veterans has now been introduced into this debate. Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom’s America In Black and White reconstructs the history of racial progress and conflict in the postwar era, and examines the impact of affirmative action solutions. The authors c ...

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2 days ago by thefruitfly

Check out Olbermann who smokes Fox Noise and all of the blithering idiots on the conservative side of media. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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3 days ago by David Swindle

Dear Ralph, It has been over a decade since this silence as durable as an iron curtain descended between us. In these circumstances, I have had to depend on others to learn how you regard me these days: how, at a recent social gathering, you referred to me as “one of the two tragedies of the New Lef ...

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3 days ago by James McPherson

“Democracy is not a spectator sport,” is the theme of “ The People Speak,” a film based on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Matt Damon was one of the film’s producers, and in the film Morgan Freeman read an 1852 Frederick Douglass speech, “”The Meaning of July Fourth for the Ne ...

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4 days ago by David Swindle

Forty years ago, I wrote the first book about the New Left, which was also a kind of manifesto of our publicly proposed agendas for a more democratic and racially equal America. I say “publicly proposed” because as leftists we knew we could not announce what we really intended which was a socialist ...

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5 days ago by David Swindle

What can justify the nihilism of the revolutionary agenda? Only a vision of the coming apocalypse. Only a vision of the existing order as totally unjustified, unnatural, destructive. “Better Red Than Dead.” To those of us who were radicals in the Sixties, this famous slogan had a different meaning t ...

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5 days ago by leftcoastledger

This week Barack Hussein Obama finally found a king he didn’t need bow to this week in Oslo, and an audience he could offend with only collateral damage to base on the Left. Casualties were minimal. Al-Qaida are shivering in their sandals.

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6 days ago by David Swindle

After Betty’s murder, I ceased to be politically active. I couldn’t even think about politics apart from these events. In my heart, I knew that it would not be possible for me to work for a cause again until I had resolved the issues of her death. As New Leftists, we felt ourselves immunized from cr ...

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8 days ago by David Swindle

The scope of this cult is indicated by the proliferation of lesser Chomskys who feed the hungers of movement activists for anti-American litanies and rationales. Most prominent among these is Chomsky’s intellectual twin, the popular historian Howard Zinn. Like Chomsky, Zinn has produced a corpus of ...

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