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This is the grave of Meyer London. Born in 1871 in Lithuania, which was then part of Russia, London came from a leftist Jewish family. His father was a former rabbi who had converted to socialism, though his mother remained devout. That must have led to some interesting family tensions. His father went to the […]

Jackson on Sanders

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On February 25, 2020

Much of Bernie Sanders’ appeal to his base is his embrace of the label of socialism. And I really appreciate him bringing it back into the American mainstream. Whether it is politically expedien

Socialist Forestry

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On April 5, 2019

The Venn diagram between socialism and forest policy in 2019 is basically me. But at one time, this was a major thing in the United States and during the 1930s and 1940s, really tore the Forest Servic

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Whenever conservatives point to France to justify abortion restrictions, Scott points notes that most pro-choice types would be fine with French regulations—if they came with the French health-care system and the legal regime that makes those restrictions not terribly burdensome. This column by Jeff Dorfman, an economist at the University of Georgia, came out about […]
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Capitalism, Socialism, Forestry

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On October 22, 2017
It’s not often that essays are published that combine socialism with forest policy, so I may be legally obligated to comment on this Jacobin essay by a British Columbia firefighter on capitalism and the destructive forest fires of the West, as well of course as the socialist prescription that will fix the problem. However, this […]
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Chait and Socialism

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On April 18, 2016
Above: Why Jonathan Chait Can’t Sleep at Night Jonathan Chait can sometimes provide good political analysis and he’s certainly right about Delaware. But his primary take on the 2016 Democratic primary is that Marxism is back and it threatens it all. So it’s been embarrassing column after embarrassing column about this “issue.” Chait for instance […]
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