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...These Times, a weekly paper, is his most ambitious undertaking. In his recent book, Ambiguous Legacy, Weinstein speaks of the need for a new socialist party. And it is clear from its first editorial that In These Times sees itself as the catalyst to a new leftist movement and ultimately to a new socialist party...
...editorial speaks of filling the gap between "the sectarian legacy of the socialist left, and the timidity and incapacity of the social reform tradition." Weinstein seems to think the issue of corporate capitalism, ignored by the Democrats and Republicans, can give rise to a new party, just as the issue of slavery, ignored by the pre-Civil War Whigs and Democrats, gave birth to the Republican Party...
...telephone interview last week Weinstein spoke of making capitalism versus socialism the main issue for the hundreds of thousands of people he believes are "implicitly socialist." These include feminists, conservationists, labor activists, civil rights workers, consumer rights advocates, and the left-liberal members of the Democratic party...
...movement Weinstein envisions seems similar to the social democratic philosophies of Western Europe. The introductory editorial sees socialism as the means of achieving the primary goal of complete democracy. It argues for a diversity of socialist movements. And it affirms the electoral process...
...handful of leftist newspapers already in existence are usually narrowly sectarian and interested mainly in pushing their own arcane dogma as the one and only Truth. But as Weinstein puts it, In These Times is a "political publication, not a religious one." (Curiously enough, the paper was originally called "These Times" until a copyright search turned up a Seventh Day Adventist publication by that name...