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Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead
Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead
Les Leopold · The door is wide open to try something new.
The Great Blue Hope: Can Mamdani and Company Save the Democratic Party?
The Great Blue Hope: Can Mamdani and Company Save the Democratic Party?
Les Leopold · Charismatic leaders from above require mass movements from below.
Why Not Take Over the Hollowed-Out Democratic Party?
Why Not Take Over the Hollowed-Out Democratic Party?
Les Leopold · Any effort by backers of an authentic working-class politics to seize the party will be like elbowing your way into a crowded subway car: lots of company and perhaps impossible to find a seat.
Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game
Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game
Les Leopold · Trump winning twice is not an accident. It’s the result of the abject failure of a [liberal] political strategy that ignores financial reform and attempts to nudge the Democratic Party forward based more on identity than class.
Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own
Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own
Les Leopold · There is no question that the Democratic Party, once the party of the working class, is now the party of the professional managerial class.
Revenge of the Deplorables?
Revenge of the Deplorables?
Les Leopold · Think about it this way, maybe it's the Democratic Party which has become deplorable to the working class.
The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience
The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience
Les Leopold · As we enter Black History Month, it is important to understand how management race science was developed to divide and conquer the workforce as it struggled against long odds to form labor unions.
Check Your White Privilege?
Check Your White Privilege?
Les Leopold · A significant question facing progressives today is whether the use of the term "white privilege" helps or hurts building the kind of solidarity needed to promote racial justice and reverse runaway inequality.
Runaway Inequality Elected Trump. Here's How It Can Help Defeat Him
Runaway Inequality Elected Trump. Here's How It Can Help Defeat Him
Les Leopold · One of the best forms of resistance will be our demand for a more equitable and humane economy
NY Daily News Claims FDR Unfit to Be President: "No Concrete Plans, Only Platitudes"
NY Daily News Claims FDR Unfit to Be President: "No Concrete Plans, Only Platitudes"
Les Leopold · [The following is an imagined 1932 New York Daily News editorial board interview with Franklin Roosevelt during his presidential campaign. The Daily News comments below derive from the editorial board’s interview with Bernie Sanders on...
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