Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PRIVATE PROPERTY: If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a Socialist and have done with it. Indeed, one of the reasons for our electoral failure is that people believe that too many Conservatives have become socialists already. Britain's progress toward socialism has been an alternation of two steps forward with half a step back...
Life as Slesinger depicts it, is not much easier for a woman who makes a strong, in dependent decision. Margaret Flinders is a young intellectual socialist. When she becomes pregnant, she and her husband discuss how a child would destroy all their plans. But the final decision to have an abortion is hers alone, but afterwards she says...
...Vecsey gives for why this coal miner literally has a jar of moonshine in one hand and a copy of Das Kapital in the other. Vecsey had to get at this somehow, because Sizemore is no quintessential miner-mountaineer. Yet he is not freak show, either. How could this socialist grow out of these barren hills? It has something to do with being suddenly laid off for nine months during the fifties, having some time to think, and making a decision. The tragedy of Appalachia--which Vecsey seems to ignore--is that Dan Sizemore made the decision alone. "Nobody brainwashed...
Jackson's political viewpoint defies easy categorization. Says he: "I am a composite of many different things. I don't worry about ideologies. I've been called a Communist, a socialist, a conservative." Yet his views actually have been largely consistent through the years, so much so that some people suspect that his mind is closed to new ideas. On domestic issues, he has shown himself to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat: backing labor but friendly to business, backing conservation but fighting against "environmental extremists," backing social legislation but opposing radical solutions. On questions...
...went through the city's public school system and on to Cornell, where he organized a speakers' group that made a show of inviting a Daily Worker editor to lecture when the City College of New York refused to let him speak. After graduation, Neier worked for Socialist Norman Thomas, then succeeded him as director of the League for Industrial Democracy, a union lobbying group. From lobbying, he switched to editing Current magazine before joining the A.C.L.U. as a field-development officer...