Huntington the official book seller for the event and as usual 10 of proceeds from back sales donated to newsday charitys covid19 long island relief fund. To learn more you can go to newsday charity. Org and the first 50 books published will receive an autographed copy. Outy gold is an american standup comedian, actress, tv writer and producer, won two daytime emmy wards for on the rosy odonnell show. She has specials hbo, comped central and logo and she currently hoes the podcast kill me now. I want to say put your hands together for judy gold but we cant do that. Who. You can say put your hand together while youre washing. The and sing happy birthday. I like that. Twice. And staying away from everybody. Exactly. They can clap at home. Thats fine. You can clap. Just dont clap someone elses hands. Two drink minimum here. Yeah. Do you want to give a little whats your elevator pitch for the book . How do you describe the book for people . I dont hoe how to describe it. People take Differ
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But today, our subject is the socialist party. The rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On a reading list, the chapter by michael casing gives a good quick summary of this moment in the various kinds of socialism at that time. From 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the u. S. But largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The emergence of a mass socialist movement with a base in the u. S. Political system follows the final flowering of the 19th century radical tradition and the defeat of the populist party in the 1890s. The inheritors of 19th century radicalism were forced to kind of think about new ways of confronting the problems and inequities of the rapidly changing Industrial Society of that time. It is often said by those who write about the history of socialism that american socialism was particularly untheoretical. Very few americans produced theoretical works ab
Reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement, and moving into the 20th century. In the next couple of weeks we will look at the progressive era, a period of the Industrial Workers, womens suffrage, municipal reform. Subjecty, our turnofthecentury all socialism, and there were many varieties, in some way or another derived from the thinking and writings of karl marx, although interpreted in different ways. One could give a whole course on marx, but what people learn is that first of all, history is the history of class struggle. The struggle between classes is the driving force of history. Claimed that under capitalism the society is being divided into two classes the working class and the bourgeoisie, or capitalist class. Production is, inevitably, being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The gaprations between the 1 and the 99 , the very rich and everyone else, would inevitably get wider and wider. Some of this resonates to the present day. 30 years of t
Hochschild who was a Founding Member of americas communist party. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone, and welcome to politics prose. Hi name is matthew zipf, im part of the events team here. Each year we host close to 1,000 authors here at the wharf and at union market. Please see our web site, politics. Prose. Com or pick up a paper copy of our Events Calendar at the desk. Before the event, i do have a few short housekeeping items. First, please silence your cell phones so we dont have any buzzing or ringing during the event. When its time for the q and a session after the presentation, please come up to the microphone there as we are recording the event via audio. Please also make sure that your question is, in fact, a question [laughter] if you have a dissertation, we do have a selfpublishing arm. [laughter] well have a signing for the book up at the front at this table here after the event. If you do not yet have a copy, we have plenty available for sale at the regist