Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-682) and index.
Contents:
Radical democracy, Jewish universalism, and social democracy -- Social gospel socialism, the labor movement, and the socialist party -- Socialism is not enough : race, feminism, religion, war, and Eugene Debs -- Communist trauma and Norman Thomas socialism -- World War emergency, Cold War void, and Black Freedom eruption -- New left, old left, and Michael Harrington -- Cultural leftism, Cornel West, market socialism, and Nancy Fraser -- Breaking the oligarchy : Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the next left.
Summary:
Democratic socialism is ascending in the United States as a consequence of a widespread recognition that global capitalism works only for a minority and is harming the planet's ecology. This history of American democratic socialism from its beginning to the present day interprets the efforts of American socialists to address and transform multiple intersecting sites of injustice and harm. Comprehensive, deeply researched, and highly original, this book offers a luminous synthesis of secular and religious socialisms, detailing both their intellectual and their organizational histories.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.