Tag Gary Dorrien

August 15, 2019
in American History, Current Affairs, Political Science

Democratic Socialist Ideas and Social Democratic Realities

August 15, 2019
in American History, Current Affairs, Political Science

Gary Dorrien— Democratic socialism, an idea with a rich history in European politics and a slight history in U.S. American politics, is surging today in the U.S. partly because America has so little of it. European Social Democracy has helped to build the world’s most humane societies by universalizing the

February 6, 2018
in American History, Current Affairs

Struggling and Failing to Break White Supremacy and Injustice

February 6, 2018
in American History, Current Affairs

Gary Dorrien— Martin Luther King Jr., at the end of his life, fixed on three reform objectives, a movement ambition, and something bigger. The policy objectives were to terminate racial discrimination in housing, establish a minimum guaranteed income, and end America’s global militarism. Sometimes he put it in ethical terms,