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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 [[Great Society|War on Poverty]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Stanley|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2010|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2006|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 |quote="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" }}</ref>
'''Michael Harrington''' (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], and generally credited with inspiring [[LBJ]]'s [[Great Society|War on Poverty]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Stanley|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2010|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2006|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 |quote="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" }}</ref>
==Great Society==
Harrington's is credited with laying out the objectives of the [[Democratic party]]'s [[Great Society]] program of the 1960s under [[President Lyndon Johnson]]. 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 [[Medicare for All|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."<ref>''Information Digest'', December 14, 1979, pages 368</ref>
==Democratic Socialists of America==
==Democratic Socialists of America==