On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 09:21 AM ( https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39432 ) , Michael Meeropol noted Gar Alperovitz. Back in the mid to late 70's as I was radicalizing, immersing myself in contemporary and historical socialist and communist texts, I read a co-written book by Alperovitz and Staughton Lynd, published by Beacon Press in 1973.
Strategy and program: two essays toward a new American socialism ( https://archive.org/details/strategyprogram0000unse/mode/2up ) Via ^ the Internet Archive site. Register for a free acct. there to check out the book and read in full. An earlier version of the piece by Staughton Lynd ( https://archive.org/details/failureofdreames0000lasl/page/712/mode/2up?q=Lynd+ ) from the above volume, was reprinted in the classic anthology edited by John Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset, " Failure of a dream? Essays in the history of American socialism ( https://archive.org/details/failureofdreames0000lasl/page/712/mode/2up ) ," originally published by Doubleday Anchor Books. Later reissued by the U.C. Press, but, a bit shorter. Two other relatively volumes, among many others, could be cited The first one below was co-edited by the late Frances Goldin. As a literary agent, I see she represented ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Goldin ) Michael Meeropol's brother, Robert. Imagine : living in a socialist USA ( https://annas-archive.org/md5/d866ad7ac527a45986cf5b43f6e5dcd1 ) edited by Frances Goldin, Debby Smith, and Michael Steven Smith ( https://annas-archive.org/search?q=edited%20by%20Frances%20Goldin,%20Debby%20Smith,%20and%20Michael%20Steven%20Smith ) New York: Harper Perennial, First edition., New York State, 2014 ( https://annas-archive.org/search?q=New%20York:%20Harper%20Perennial ) When that volume was in a Barnes and Noble, seeing it had a piece by the Son of V.J. Jerome of the CPUSA, Fred, I did involuntarily react negatively, initially. Renegade Ron Radosh had a very negative review in David Horowitz'es Frontpage Mag which was scathing ( https://www.frontpagemag.com/imagine-living-socialist-usa-ronald-radosh/ ). Radosh fulminated ( https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2014/01/24/can-you-imagine-the-media-in-a-communist-usa-n149189 ) in another right-wing website PJ Media ( https://www.salon.com/2014/01/18/lets_nationalize_fox_news_imagining_a_very_different_media/ ) , about Fred's article in the anthology, after Salon published his contribution ( https://www.salon.com/2014/01/18/lets_nationalize_fox_news_imagining_a_very_different_media/ ). The other recent volume that comes to mind is, We Own the Future : Democratic Socialism—American Style ( https://annas-archive.org/md5/9dc981663871c5f2510b66602b1bcc1c )." An aside about one of the editors, Peter Dreier who teaches at Occidental College. When the DSA-LA had its growth spurt, in the Bernie boom, going from monthly attendance at meetings of around two to three dozen folx, a decade ago, to 300-400 when the meetings were held in an auditorium at the United Teachers L.A. HQ on Wilshire Blvd., at an event in another auditorium in a public park, Dreier spoke, for too long, and extolled Victor Berger, at length, The comrades I was seated with, mostly former members of the ISO, began heckling and hooting. Speaking with him, during a lunch break, he was rather defensive about Berger's racism. Plugging Victor Berger into the search bar at X, there are some threads on Eric Blanc's piece. A fellow former member of the SPUSA, a Maoist in St. Louis, Black Red Guard, who joined the DSA a couple yrs. ago and is a leader of a M-L-M Caucus, Liberation, makes the same point ( https://x.com/_ericblanc/status/1991550735277023617 ) to Eric Blanc. Eric Blanc @_ericblanc Actually, Berger & the sewer socialists fought hard vs racism, the KKK, & lynching once significant numbers of Black workers arrived in Milwaukee after WWI—& Black workers reciprocated by supported the Socialists Antiracism was plank #1 in Berger's 1922 congressional campaign! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39487): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39487 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116474748/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
