A Progressive Majority - What it is and How to Build It
SolidarityEconomy.net’s Carl Davidson debates Mark Solomon, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism on the left, the movement to defeat the right and the future of socialism
Mark Solomon - A Progressive Majority: What it is and How to Build It
At the Jack London Museum in the Sonoma foothills, there’s a large poster on display from around 1907 advertising a talk by Jack London on “The Coming Crisis.” If ever there was an always timely, all-purpose and perennially relevant topic, that’s it.
When we tote up outrages like an administration that abets environmental disaster, a budget resolution that shreds the last vestiges of decent social payments, worsening carnage in Iraq, insane threats to nuke Iran; a White House knee-deep in corruption, chicanery and contempt for the Constitution; a House bill that criminalizes millions of undocumented workers and those who help them; festering brutality, torture illegal rendition and denial of human rights to prisoners held across the world; near-genocidal widespread joblessness and incarceration among African American males; aggressive campaigns to undermine reproductive choice, gay marriage and other personal decisions - the crisis isn’t just coming. It’s here.
But crisis always provokes response - the most visible at the moment, the awakening of undocumented immigrants and (more…)
