Sentences with phrase «with democratic socialist»

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

Not exact matches

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.

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists» 46 in the 167 - national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be counted.

I would rather take a Democratic society with Republican fat cats over a Socialist one waiting in bread lines to get my «rations».

As the ills of capitalism became apparent in the late 19th century and as various forms of socialism — Soviet, democratic, Chinese - developed in the 20th century, notable Christian theologians — Tillich, the early Reinhold Niebuhr, the early Brunner and, more recently, liberation theologians - have advocated the wedding of Christian ethics with socialist economic practice.

It represents the culmination of his 15 years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the time just after World War I when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

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.

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.

These insects included religious believers, the bourgeoisie, all the aristocracy, any property - owning peasants or «kulaks,» and the independent - minded socialists who refused to sever socialism's remaining connections with Western humanism and the liberal and democratic cause.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

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.

In these arguments, Cobb's views overlap with the democratic - socialist views that have dominated most religious interpretations of contemporary economic life for a generation.

However, they don't really answer the final question: why did organized labor become associated with the Democratic Party, rather than a new socialist - type party?

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

I think democratic republicanism does have a lot in common with libertarian socialism - both want to end the tyranny of capital, so to speak, without creating a new tyranny of the supposedly benign socialist state.

Hillary Clinton claimed that declaring herself to be a «capitalist» during the 2016 presidential primaries may have hurt her with Democratic voters, because many of them are self - described socialists.

The California State Assembly debated legislation Thursday introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Miguel Santigo that would make «International Workers» Day,» a holiday with Socialist and Communist roots, a paid state holiday.

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.

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.

Breaking the mould with electoral reform would have transformed the political landscape, allowing a socialist and a social democratic party, a centre - right pro-EU Tory party and a hard - right faction for the likes of John Redwood and Liam Fox.

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.

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.

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 oDemocratic nomination, Mr. de Blasio can't resist uttering niceties about her democratic socialist rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders odemocratic 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.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

«There is nothing socialist about this, nothing social democratic, nothing liberal, nothing progressive, nothing moral, nothing with any optimism or imagination.»

Labour Party minister Peter Hain [219] has written in support of libertarian socialism, identifying an axis involving a «bottom - up vision of socialism, with anarchists at the revolutionary end and democratic socialists [such as himself] at its reformist end» as opposed to the axis of state socialism with Marxist — Leninists at the revolutionary end and social democrats at the reformist end.

Earlier with Clinton at the Make My Cake Bakery at St. Nicholas Avenue and 116th Street, longtime ally Rep. Charles Rangel went off on Sanders, the Brooklyn - born Democratic socialist.

[5] Lane Kenworthy, professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, has stated that Sanders is a social democrat and not a democratic socialist -LSB-...] Mike Konczal, an economic policy expert at the Roosevelt Institute, also characterizes Sanders» positions as «social democracy» rather than «socialist», noting that social democracy means support for a mixed economy combining private enterprise with government spending, social insurance programs, Keynesian macroeconomic policies, and democratic participation in government and the workplace - all of which are a part of Sanders» platform.

THE RECENT PLATYPUS PANEL on the «Death of Social Democracy» raised the prospect of a socialist left whose approach is not focused on taking power in capitalist national states, whether through the electoral reformism of traditional Social Democracy or a Bolshevik - style armed seizure, but on building a grassroots - democratic, confederal, and internationalist counterpower that can replace capitalist nation - states with a truly democratic socialism.

Hawkins still resents Sanders» maneuvering in Vermont, where he accuses the democratic socialist of a political nonaggression pact with the local establishment.

Howie Hawkins, a Green Party co-founder and member of the socialist group Solidarity, wrote an essay in May for the ISO's Socialist Worker website attacking Sanders for «violating the first principle of socialist politics: class independence,» consorting with the «billionaire class» by pledging to «support their candidate» if he loses the Democraticsocialist group Solidarity, wrote an essay in May for the ISO's Socialist Worker website attacking Sanders for «violating the first principle of socialist politics: class independence,» consorting with the «billionaire class» by pledging to «support their candidate» if he loses the DemocraticSocialist Worker website attacking Sanders for «violating the first principle of socialist politics: class independence,» consorting with the «billionaire class» by pledging to «support their candidate» if he loses the Democraticsocialist politics: class independence,» consorting with the «billionaire class» by pledging to «support their candidate» if he loses the Democratic primary.

On VTDigger.org, Greg Guma takes a look at how people and groups ranging from outright independents to Vermont's independent, democratic socialist, close - with - the - Progressive - Party Senator Bernie Sanders to a former Green Party candidate are playing a role in the race for Burlington mayor.

By the way, progressive socialists are now joining forces with «Islamic socialists», Code Pink (who are now calling for the murder of our soldiers), liberal democrats (some of whom are now supporting Code Pink and now the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt), and others to tear down our capitalistic democratic way of life.

In his speech, Williams mocked the Daily News's assertion that the self - described democratic socialist was «at war with reality.»

Many democratic socialists and social democrats believe in a form of participatory, industrial, economic and / or workplace democracy combined with a representative democracy.

As a grassroots activist who organized for Bernie Sanders in four different states — and have since joined NYPAN and the Democratic Socialists of America — I've heard from hundreds of Americans who are fed up with way the country runs its elections.

In the same manner it is possible to find a lasting solution to the problem of world peace by integrating the socialist economic system requiring a definite limit to individual proprietorship with the democratic individual freedom [3].

On show here are works belonging to the Christian Democratic Appeal (a small clay figurine representing the importance of family values and faith), the Labor Party (a piece of a new kind of asphalt, more endurable under extreme temperatures, connoting stability, employment and freedom of movement for the working class), the Socialist Party (photos of a protest by harbor workers in Rotterdam that went on strike in 1979 to demand higher salaries), and Leefbar («Livable») Rotterdam (an image of tolerant multiculturalism, at odds with the ideological identity of the owners.)

J Smith The socialists did make a royal mess of everything, including the house of lords, this they had to do as it was a great democratic safeguard for democracy, as an englishman totally disgusted by the unholy mess the labour bastards have done to me and my country I left with what little I have left.

Which brings me to the question: do you agree with what I said in my comment at # 9, i.e. that a program of reforming capitalism in a social democratic / socialist direction will not succeed in addressing global warming unless it contains a substantial suite of policies specifically aimed at addressing that problem.