Michael Harrington
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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 War on Poverty.[1][2][3]
Democratic Socialists of America
Great Society
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 Meridcare for Allnational 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."[6]
DSA founding convention
The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee founding convention Socialism'73 took place in New York City, October 12 and 13, 1973, NY University. Speakers included;
- David Lewis, leader, New Democratic Party of Canada, "US economic imperialism".
- Michael Harrington
- Workshops on the unions, feminism, racial equality, Democratic Party, equality and Detente with David Selden, Rose Laub Coser, Doug Ireland, Michael Walzer, Bogdan Denitch, Christopher Lasch
- Panel on "socialism and the welfare state" with Irving Howe, Erazim Kohak, Norman Birnbaum.[7]
Harrington symposium
On November 15 2007, the Tamiment Library in NYC held a symposium celebrating the life and work of Democratic Socialists of America Founding Chair Michael Harrington (1928-1989) and the official opening of the Harrington Papers. Invited speakers included DSA National Director Frank Llewellyn.[8]
References
- â Kurtz, Stanley (2010). Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. Simon and Schuster, 31.Â
- â Horowitz, David (2006). The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. Simon and Schuster, 85.Â
- â Everything you need to know about the war on poverty. Washington Post (January 8, 2014). â"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"â
- â Newsletter of the Democratic Left, October 1973, page 3
- â Democratic Left, Sep. 1975, page 2
- â Information Digest, December 14, 1979, pages 368
- â [1] Newsletter of the Democratic Left, October 1973, page 6
- â TYR, Jan. 2008