Michael Harrington
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As a young man, his interest in left-wing politics and Catholicism led him to Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker movement. He became editor of the ”Catholic Worker” from 1951-1953. In 1960, he became editor of ”New America”, the newspaper of the Socialist-Social Democratic Federation. His book, ”The Other America” influenced the Johnson adminstrations war on poverty. In the 1970’s, he formed the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee of which he was a leader till his death.
Fragments of the century / | Socialism : | Socialism. | Taking sides : | The long-distance runner : | The next left : | The other America : | The politics at God’s funeral : | The twilight of capitalism | The vast majority :