States. Benjamin i noticed that there may have been a flurry of books on socialism. This is price because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in our countrys history. There have been socialist candidates in the past predict Norman Thomas but they were never in the mainstream for now, infected a time when many of the socialisms had collapsed at the end of the 20th century suddenly its back in his back with a vengeance. So my surprise theres a lot of books that try to take stock of it. By and large its going to be the history, the idea the socialism has never worked before. Certainly not for lack of being tried it was tried and really the majority of the world. The largest countries in the world, russia, china, india. Oh one go into the socialist direction. So is that it didnt work before so its not going to work now. History kind of argument. But the problem with that argument is the socialist left result a lot of people dont know the history so it doesnt
Lot of these books have been published about socialism in response to what has changed over the last five years and they all have a little bit of a different take on it and emphasize different points so my obvious question is, why the United States and socialism and why did you write this book . Guest i noticed that there have been a flurry of books on socialism and that is a surprise because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in our countrys history and there have been socialist candidates in the past, eugene debs, Norman Thomas but they were never in the mainstream and but now in fact at a time when many of us thought socialism had collapsed at the end of the 20th century, suddenly in the 21st century it is back and back with a vengeance. I am not surprised that there are books that try to take stock of this. The unifying theme throughout these books and i think by and large it will be history, its the idea that socialism has never worked before and ce
Coordinating committee and taking part in the 1963 march on washington. Mister courtland also served in the second terri general of 1974 six pan african congress. I was born in new york in harlem in 1941 and my mother moved me and my sister to the west indies to trinidad where my grandmother and our family lived. Four years later, 1945, i stayed in trinidad from 1945 to 1952 and then i came back to new york after my grandmother died in 1952 and lived in harlem for a couple of years and then moved to the bronx. I intended Catholic School, st. Helenas and then, you know, went from well actually Grammar School which was actually an interesting thing because it was african all African American nuns and then i went to st. Helenas and then went to Howard University. My mother sent me to Catholic School because, you know, at that point it cost a ten dollars a month, which was, you know, serious money in 1952 and 1954, but also she wanted to make sure that i had the best education that she cou
Working for pm we should talk a little but i will talk about that. The great investigative journalist i have stone remains the template for what journalism should be he was a fearless opponent of mccarthyism and the scourge of official liars as d. D. Gotten planned puts it in his biography of stone he did what few in his profession could he always thought for himself couldnt plan argues that the key to stones achievements throughout his singular career not just in the celebrated eye of stones weekly lay in the forests and passion of his political commitments he would become one of the best known journalists in the country and then because of the ferocity of his integrity and refusal to be cowed by the hysteria and witch hunts over communism a pariah he was placed under daily surveillance his passport was not renewed and he was blacklisted even the nation. Agonising would not give him a job at the age of 44. 00 he wrote that is total marginalisation made him feel like a ghost his career