Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael Harrington, author of "The Other America," and the national chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, told an audience in Emerson Hall last night that the American left should support "without illusions" President-elect Jimmy Carter's effort to achieve full employment and implement the policies of the Democratic platform...
...even if FDR's comment "Norman, I'm a damned sight better politician than you are," was correct, it is clear that the Socialist party's problems were not solely the product of failures on the part of its leadership. The ideological divisions and rivalries among the parties of the American Left, government repression, the superficially socialistic New Deal, and the advent of World War II constituted political obstacles that may well have been insurmountable. In any case, a sophisticated analysis of the Socialist Party's decline is a task more suited to an academic than to a biographer...
There was also the apparent contradiction that existed between the political views and positions of the public, Socialist Thomas and the private Thomas, a member, however reluctant, of the upper class. Thomas's wife Violet (nee Stewart) was the daughter of one of New York's wealthiest and most illustrious families, and the bulk of the Thomas family income was derived from her sizeable inheritance. Thomas sent his children to private schools, owned a luxurious country house, employed several servants, and enthusiastically supported his wife's hobby of raising cocker spaniels. A staunch, and early, opponent of racial discrimination...
With his moralist, individualist approach, upperclass lifestyle and unshakeable belief in the democratic and civil libertarian ideals Thomas, never a Marxist ideologue, was at best a bourgeois socialist. Indeed, in his later years, disturbed by the systematic suppression of dissent in Stalinist Russia, he felt his socialist faith slipping...
...election's overall movement was toward the center, Reischauer said, adding that Liberal Democrats and the Japanese Communist Party both lost substantially, while less extreme groups such as the Liberal Club, the Japanese Socialist Party and the Komeito, or "clean government" party, all gained...