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Harrington is one of the original organizers and founders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).<ref>''[http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/dsa/1973/1000-dsoc-dl006.pdf Newsletter of the Democratic Left]'', October 1973, page 3</ref><ref>Democratic Left, Sep. 1975, page 2</ref> DSA membership is non-[[democratic]], and not available to non-[[Marxist]]s. "Democracy" and voting rights within the group only exist for dedicated Marxists to further the group's Marxist platform and agenda.
 
Harrington is one of the original organizers and founders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).<ref>''[http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/dsa/1973/1000-dsoc-dl006.pdf Newsletter of the Democratic Left]'', October 1973, page 3</ref><ref>Democratic Left, Sep. 1975, page 2</ref> DSA membership is non-[[democratic]], and not available to non-[[Marxist]]s. "Democracy" and voting rights within the group only exist for dedicated Marxists to further the group's Marxist platform and agenda.
  
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Harrington's solution for U. S. social and economic ills was the Democratic Agenda program:
 
Harrington's solution for U. S. social and economic ills was the Democratic Agenda program:
  

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Michael Harrington (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the League for Industrial Democracy, and generally credited with inspiring LBJ's War on Poverty.[1][2][3]

Democratic Socialists of America

Harrington is one of the original organizers and founders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).[4][5] DSA membership is non-democratic, and not available to non-Marxists. "Democracy" and voting rights within the group only exist for dedicated Marxists to further the group's Marxist platform and agenda.

Great Society

Harrington's solution for U. S. social and economic ills was the Democratic Agenda program:

  • A federally-owned gas and oil corporation "on the model of the TVA;"
  • full employment with price controls "by putting Americans back to work as part of a national plan to meet desperately urgent human and economic needs;"
  • a comprehensive national health plan;
  • greatly expanded federal housing programs that would guarantee "the right to decent housing";
  • ending federal subsidies to agribusiness corporations while "providing encouragement" to "family farmers."[6]

DSA founding convention

The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee founding convention Socialism'73 took place in New York City, October 12 and 13, 1973, NY University. Speakers included;

  • David Lewis, leader, New Democratic Party of Canada, "US economic imperialism".
  • Michael Harrington
  • Workshops on the unions, feminism, racial equality, Democratic Party, equality and Detente with David Selden, Rose Laub Coser, Doug Ireland, Michael Walzer, Bogdan Denitch, Christopher Lasch
  • Panel on "socialism and the welfare state" with Irving Howe, Erazim Kohak, Norman Birnbaum.[7]

Democratic Agenda/Socialist Caucus

For groups and organizations seeking radical social change within the Democratic Party, the National Convention of 1980 had at least one historic first - formation of a Socialist Caucus of delegates. Organized by the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and by the Democratic Agenda which was DSOC's cadre and supporters within the Democratic Party and was based in DSOC' s New York office and at 1730 M Street, NW, Washington, DC. Some 31 delegates and alternates from twelve states and Democrats Abroad attended the Socialist Caucus.

As a preliminary to the convention's Socialist Caucus meeting, indeed as a "building event" and as a continued show of support for Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), the Democratic Agenda sponsored a convention rally at New York's Town Hall. The speakers included Herman Badillo, Julian Bond, Fran Bennick, Harry Britt, Cesar Chavez, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI}, Douglas Fraser, Murray Finley, Michael Harrington, Terry Herndon, Ruth Jordan, Ruth Messinger, Eleanor Smeal, Gloria Steinem and William Winpisinger.

DSOC works within the Democratic Party, said Harrington, because of the party's relationships with organized workers, blacks, feminists, environmentalists and other "progressive[[ groups."

The Socialist Caucus circulated a list of convention delegates who were caucus members, including;[8]

Harrington symposium

On November 15 2007, the Tamiment Library in NYC held a symposium celebrating the life and work of Democratic Socialists of America Founding Chair Michael Harrington (1928-1989) and the official opening of the Harrington Papers. Invited speakers included DSA National Director Frank Llewellyn.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Kurtz, Stanley (2010). Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. Simon and Schuster, 31. 
  2. ↑ Horowitz, David (2006). The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. Simon and Schuster, 85. 
  3. ↑ Everything you need to know about the war on poverty. Washington Post (January 8, 2014). “"Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda"”
  4. ↑ Newsletter of the Democratic Left, October 1973, page 3
  5. ↑ Democratic Left, Sep. 1975, page 2
  6. ↑ Information Digest, December 14, 1979, pages 368
  7. ↑ [1] Newsletter of the Democratic Left, October 1973, page 6
  8. ↑ Information Digest, September 19, 1980, p 333
  9. ↑ TYR, Jan. 2008
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