Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example--have always harkened to the pre-industrial past to protest the development of capitalism in its various stages inevitably, mass protests of the dissatisfied and dispossessed have used the values of the past, and movements insisting that the past is gone and cannot be relived--such as the Socialist and Communist movements--have never found much support from American workers...
...Andrew Levison's The Working Class Majority helps explain both the strengths and weaknesses of the book. Most important, Levison is decisive on a central matter: is the present-day working class potentially revolutionary or only potentially liberal? Ultimately, Levison says liberal in the short run and perhaps socialist and revolutionary in the long run. This point is significant, because Levison is a McGovern liberal, and through the book's serialization in The New Yorker it might come to have high currency among the middle-class Left. As a whole. Levison attempts to provide the basis for a worker-affluent...
Mapai, the center socialist party, has traditionally dominated all coalition governments. This has also resulted in a disproportionate influence for the National Religious Party (Mafdal), an essential Mapai ally in the often shaky coalitions. Mafdal generally agrees to support Mapai's foreign policy in return for Mapai acquiescence to Mafdal religious initiatives...
...currently 14 political parties represented in the Knesset, ranging from the communists--the only legal communist party in the Middle East--to the conservative Cherut party. Most parties are affiliated with one of three major political blocks: the Labor Alignment centered around Mapai and including several more strongly socialist parties as well as the Israeli Arab parties; the two religious parties, of which Mafdal is the largest and the center right block of three parties, called Likud...
...original legend of Joan of Arc was all ethereal voices and uprolled eyes. George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan suffered from an opposite flaw: a 15th century French farm girl with 19th century English socialist leanings, she seemed all pragmatism and muddy boots...