- Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 724 pages)
- Summary
- Democratic socialism is ascending in the United States as a consequence of a widespread recognition that global capitalism works only for a minority and is harming the planet's ecology. This history of American democratic socialism from its beginning to the present day interprets the efforts of American socialists to address and transform multiple intersecting sites of injustice and harm. Comprehensive, deeply researched, and highly original, this book offers a luminous synthesis of secular and religious socialisms, detailing both their intellectual and their organizational histories.
- Uniform Title
- American democratic socialism (Online)
- Alternative Title
- American democratic socialism (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-682) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Biography (note)
- Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Colombia University.
- Contents
- Radical democracy, Jewish universalism, and social democracy -- Social gospel socialism, the labor movement, and the socialist party -- Socialism is not enough : race, feminism, religion, war, and Eugene Debs -- Communist trauma and Norman Thomas socialism -- World War emergency, Cold War void, and Black Freedom eruption -- New left, old left, and Michael Harrington -- Cultural leftism, Cornel West, market socialism, and Nancy Fraser -- Breaking the oligarchy : Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the next left.
- LCCN
- 2020943020
- OCLC
- ssj0002592506
- Author
Dorrien, Gary J.
- Title
American democratic socialism [electronic resource] : history, politics, religion, and theory / Gary Dorrien.
- Imprint
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-682) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Biography
Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Colombia University.
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