Sentences with phrase «many democratic socialists»

In an Oct. 4 letter to acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, Sen. Marco Rubio demanded the branch nullify the military commission of 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone, the West Point graduate, Afghanistan combat veteran, and self - identified member of the Democratic Socialists of America who posted photos of himself wearing a Che Guevara shirt under his uniform and a «Communism Will Win» sign tucked into his cover on Sept. 24.

Of all the candidates, Cuban says he would most like to sit down with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, even though he objects to Sanders's stance as a democratic socialist and plan to levy a special tax on billionaires.

Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a fifty - year - old lawyer educated at Cambridge, calls himself a «democratic socialist.»

We in the Houston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing aid efforts for those affected by the storm.

In terms of a secret agenda for collectivist authoritarianism, I admit a few liberal elites are that depraved — I was myself shocked by the degree to which the leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America, the ones who helped train our current President and whose leader (Michael Harrington) I myself read and admired in the 80s, were open to deception and smear - tactics, as revealed by Stanely Kurtz's Radical in Chief.

We encourage you to read and discuss them, and if you agree consider joining the Socialist Party: 1) The Socialist Party is a democratic socialist organization.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

When Irving Howe, the good democratic socialist critic of Dissent fame, was attacking in 1966 the whole idea of Counter-Cultural style — I guess Beatle boots, beads, long hair, turtlenecks, denims, etc. — , he said that it rested upon the ``... basic assumption... of the middle class: that values can be inferred from, or are resident in, the externals of dress, appearance, furnishings, and hair - dos.»

The mixed economies partly expressive of democratic socialist ideals virtually abolished degrading forms of poverty and insured that the basic needs of all were met.

When one of the main political goals of democratic socialists is the workers» co-determination and self - control, how can we stand a God - talk based on the refusal of democratization and self - determination?

Harrington is the national chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC, pronounced Dee - Sock), the strategy of which has been to build a socialist presence on the left wing of the Democratic Party.

A conversation with democratic socialist Michael Harrington is like an encounter with an atheist Karl Rahner.

True, he does not lay as much stress on the importance of maintaining a plurality of political parties, freedom of speech and of the press, etc., as democratic socialists would wish to do today; but he did not yet know as many instances as we do of the ease with which these things may be snuffed out.

Many liberation theologians and democratic socialists damn King with faint praise as they continue to pursue those goals for which he gave his life: peace, the empowerment of the poor and the Third World, and the elimination of racism.

Nonetheless, I hesitated about declaring myself a democratic socialist or social democrat, because I was unclear about the implications of that allegiance.

But what of the liberationist, the democratic socialist and the other progressives who perceive King's accomplishments as small compared to their own achievements, and negligible in the light of America's need?

I submit that their concern is not so much with the conservatives» possible manipulation of King's dream as with the difficulties that dream creates for the aspirations of the liberationists, democratic socialists and progressives.

On reading and reflecting on this work, I am reminded of why it is that I remained in dialogue with the Boston - area branch of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), founded by Harrington and led locally by John Cort (author of Christian Socialism) for more than a decade.

It turned out that it makes a great deal of difference whether one is a democratic socialist or a social democrat, for the relative location of nouns, which convey the substance of things, and adjectives, which represent the modifiers, weights priorities time after time.

In the Iowa Caucus, the 74 - year - old Democratic Socialist shocked the political world by fighting Clinton to a virtual tie, 49.9 % to 49.6 %.

What happened in America's big cities between say 1890 and 1950 that no democratic socialist movement gained nationwide traction, and that the industrial working class, in the northern cities, came to depend on the Democratic party, which had totally different origins among southern white farmers, and which contained a strong segregationist instinct?

And, while the term «democratic socialist» was not a popular one, New Deal Democrats were in substance Democratic Socialists.

I don't for a minute believe that a democratic socialist can win such a contest.

Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

But the strand of democratic socialist thought that has proved resilient is that of Tony Crosland's «The Future of Socialism» rather than Bevan's «In Place of Fear».

Some ones that may have become democratic socialist societies had they survived are Anarchist Catalonia, the Paris Commune, and the Bavarian Soviet Republic.

Since the leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn has made it his priority to turn Labour into a democratic socialist party with the support of social movements.

Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, a Democrat known for bucking the Democratic establishment, announced his endorsement of Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders, the Democratic socialist challenging Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.

From now on I will fight the Tories and fight for left wing democratic socialist policies and left wing democratic socialist candidates at all levels.

Democratic Socialists of America members march down University Place to Washington Square Park from Union Square during a May Day protest on Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

Only David Miliband hinted that the question offered an old shibboleth, before showing that he was prepared to genuflect before it anyway in being «happy to sign up to» the assertion that «Labour is a democratic socialist party», a statement left in new Labour's new Clause Four in 1995.

Further, a tragic example was Salvador Allende who, in Victor Figueroa - Clark's account, despite his long political experience, miscalculated the chances of democratic socialist reform in Chile.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who have endorsed Sanders and established an independent expenditure to support his run, has seen its new membership rates double.

A first - time candidate, El - Yateem ran with the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America as well as Sunset Park Councilmember Carlos Menchaca and noted Arab - American civil rights activist Linda Sarsour.

But from the tone of the piece, it is immediately clear that he is warning against any re-emergence of democratic socialist politics.

If, as democratic socialists, we are in favour of strong, independent trade unions for the British people, then we ought to support the same principle with respect to the Cubans.

The book also — essentially — provides a statement of priorities and timeless values from a democratic socialist, rational patriot and internationalist.

God forbidded people who call themselves democratic socialists like me though should demand that the majority population of these islands are treated EQUALLY with the others.

I have been virtually all my life a democratic socialist, committed to a much fairer society, and reducing the vast concentration of private wealth among so few.

Fliedner ran in the 2017 Brooklyn Democratic primary as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America on a platform of criminal justice reform, an end to broken windows policing, and the shutdown of Rikers Island, issues shared more or less by his five competitors.

Agudelo added that she was «a proud member of the Hudson Valley Democratic Socialists of America and a proud environmentalist.»

From the late - 1980s onwards, the party adopted free market policies, [146] leading many observers to describe the Labour Party as social democratic or the Third Way, rather than democratic socialist.

Even now, with Ms. Clinton marching ever closer to the Democratic nomination, Mr. de Blasio can't resist uttering niceties about her democratic socialist rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

With a huge groundswell of support from the several hundred thousand people who have joined the party since the last election, the radical democratic socialist has snatched Labour from under the noses of the establishment.

Brooklyn District 43 (Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights): Progressive Justin Brannan, a local activist and former staffer to termed - out Councilman Vincent Gentile, bested Palestinian - American Rev. Khader El - Yateem, who embraced the support of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Joseph M. Schwartz, a professor of political science at Temple University, a national vice chair of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and author of Coalition Politics and the Fight for Socialism, talks about the reasons for the rapid growth of DSA to become the largest U.S. socialist organization in the U.S. since the 1940s.

By the time O'Malley did make his bid official, interest in Sanders, a self - described «democratic socialist» whom pundits initially wrote off as a fringe candidate, was starting to swell.

We need to win elections but where we differ is as a left wing democratic socialist I believe we should stand for what we believe in and fight for this.

Or, will the Peekskill Democrats continue to defend Ms. Agudelo and accept her as a viable member of the Common Council and through such defense imply they have accepted or adopted portions of the Democratic Socialists Party's platform, of which Ms. Agudelo is proud to be a member?

If the 13 million votes received by self - styled «democratic socialist» Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries accomplished nothing else positive, it put the questions of socialism and independent working - class politics up for public discussion.