From The Activist, an symposium on Michael Harrington (and a review of The Other America). A review of Freedom's Power: The History and Promise of Liberalism by Paul Starr. A review of The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe (and more). From ZNet's "Reimagining Society Project", Barbara Epstein on why the US left is weak — and what to do about it; Michael Hardt on the politics of the common; Yotam Marom on revolutionary communalism; Noam Chomsky on anarchism; Richard Schmitt on socialism; Erik Olin Wright on taking the social in socialism seriously; and Marcus Hill on anti-civilization theory. The Left fights not just for welfarism but for socialism, with which welfarism is dialectically linked, but whose content is qualitatively different. Open Left is asking a simple but contested question: What does it mean to be on the Left today? Posing as progressive: An article on the problem with PC (and a response). Henry Farrell reviews Bloggers on the Bus by Eric Boehlert and Netroots: Online Progressives and the Transformation of American Politics by Matthew R. Kerbel. Left without labor: A party of professionals and young voters risks becoming a party that overlooks the core economic crisis facing American workers. Look out for the union label: Liberals rejoin the picket line. The history of Labor Day, in addition to involving a surplus of ironies, also disproves an oft spoken cliche.
