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==Democratic Socialists of America==

Harrington is one of the original organizers and founders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).<ref>''[http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/dsa/1973/1000-dsoc-dl006.pdf Newsletter of the Democratic Left]'', October 1973, page 3</ref><ref>Democratic Left, Sep. 1975, page 2</ref> DSA membership is non-[[democratic]], and not available to non-[[Marxist]]s. "Democracy" and voting rights within the group only exist for dedicated Marxists to further the group's Marxist platform and agenda.

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~~===Great Society===~~

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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:

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* A federally-owned gas and oil corporation "on the model of the [[TVA]];"

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* 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;"

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* a comprehensive [[Medicare for All|national health plan]];

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* greatly expanded federal housing programs that would guarantee "the right to decent housing";

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* ending federal subsidies to agribusiness corporations while "providing encouragement" to "family farmers."<ref>''Information Digest'', December 14, 1979, pages 368</ref>

===DSA founding convention===

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