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Where have all the lefties gone?

From Re-public, a special issue on proposals for a progressive governance. From Social Europe Journal, a special issue on social democracy and the good society. Tony Judt on what is living and what is dead in social democracy. A review of Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-soviet Era by Jean Francois Revel (and more). A review of Why Not Socialism? by Gerry Cohen. The Left’s Future: Sweden’s Social Democrats are still an inspiration for the rest of the European left. Read Stieg Larsson, the bestselling socialist militant: There was nothing false about the Swedish writer's belief in women's rights or anti-fascist campaigning. A review of Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham. From Monthly Review, Paul Buhle on Marxism, the United States, and the twentieth century. From City Journal, Fred Siegel on 1919 and the betrayal and birth of modern liberalism: Disillusionment with Woodrow Wilson changed the American Left forever. A review of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America by Peter Richardson (and more and more and more and more and more). Kevin Mattson reviews The Left at War by Michael Berube (and more and more). Leftists, Liberals and Losers: How and why progressives must unite for real change. From Democracy, William Galston on the courage of our contradictions: A new liberalism must reflect not only on our permanent beliefs, but also on many Americans' reservations about them; and a review of The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe. Pete Seeger is a Communist: Where have all the lefties gone? (and more)