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...Democratic capitalism is neither the Kingdom of God nor without sin. Yet all other known systems of political economy are worse." So writes Michael Novak, a Roman Catholic intellectual and socialist turned neoconservative, in a spirited (and spiritual) new defense. Reflecting on the "new order" in America that European-influenced moral philosophers have long ignored, Novak argues that democracy and a free economy are the natural embodiment of the ideals of liberty and individual worth that are the foundation of the Judeo-Christian tradition. "Such hope as we have for alleviating poverty and for removing oppressive tyranny-perhaps our last...
...includes the Phillips Brooks House Committee for Economic Change, the Democratic Club, the Black Students Association, and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee...
...slots passed last Tuesday, leaving Rep. Charles Flaherty and Rep. Saundra Graham, both filed as Democrats, running unopposed. Sen. Michael LoPresti, Jr. '70 faces opposition for the first time since 1974, by William Shakalis, who will go on the ballot as an independent, but is campaigning as a Democratic Socialist...
...history. In his inagural in 1945, leftist Juan Jose Arevalo, the first popularly elected President of Guatemala., movingly cited Franklin Roosevelt. "He taught us," said Arevalo, "that there is no need to cancel the concept of freedom is the democratic system in order to breathe into it a socialist spirit...
Criticizing French socialists in the 1880s, the French Marxist Jules Guesde coined the term "possibilist" to describe what he considered the opportunists and futilely moderate strategy of Paul Brousse and his followers In response, socialist leader Brousse gladly dubbed Guesde and his supporters the "impossibilists" as an emblem of intransigence...