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Their other major argument is that both modern welfare and socialist states encourage ethnics to band together politically because it is easier to be responsive to their demands than to those of larger, less clearly defined groups, such as "workers," or "blue collar employees." Strategically, the state fosters the growth of groups small enough to accomodate (imagine the costs if the government actually wanted to help out all workers) and small enough to feel the benefits of a concession. Glazer and Moynihan neglect to mention the relative ease with which a state can co-opt and control an oppressed...
Michael Harrington, national chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, wasn't at that particular meeting, but in his 30-odd years of involvement in socialist groups, he has seen plenty of other instances of left-wing sectarianism. He remembers a meeting in 1954 for the unification of the Young Socialists and the Young People's Socialist League. The convention was highlighted by the decision to rename the gathering, "the September Plenum," dedicated to the establishment of a workers' state and to the overthrow of the capitalist, bourgeois regime." The decision was wildly applauded by all of the eighty-three...
...solemn pronouncements of these cloistered radical groups seem pretty ridiculous. But it appears that Harrington, in his anxiety to avoid ever appearing absurd again, has fallen prey to another pitfall. For the socialist there is always the danger of allowing one's political identity to be blurred, forgetting exactly what it is that makes a socialist's world-view different from that of people with a stake in capitalist institutions...
...more ignominious moments, Reed told his Jewish roommate, Carl Binger, that they could not live together, because it would hamper Reed's chances of gaining membership in the Hasty Pudding Institute. Reed preferred football games and social functions to participation in Walter Lippmann's newly formed Socialist Club...
...television address the week before his new government came to power, Pinheiro de Azevedo pledged to preserve "the gains made by the revolution" and to continue to build a socialist Portugal. But he also promised a "democratic pluralism" that he pointedly said would extend to the news media-a slap at the Communist unions that use the state-owned radio, TV and newspapers to spout the party line. Despite their token representation in the Cabinet, the Communists eye the new regime with scarcely veiled hostility. Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal told cheering followers in Lisbon's Campo Pequeno bull ring...