Abstract:The shocking scope and brutality of Russia's invasion of Ukraine have prompted legions of journalists, pundits, and academics to try to explain the conditions, rationale, and possible outcomes of Vladimir Putin's war, often by drawing connections back to the Soviet and imperial periods. In this cluttered and uneven field of interpretation and polemic, Russian leftist activist, art critic, and historian Ilya Budraitskis's new collection of essays, Dissidents Among Dissidents, comes as a much-needed intervention
{"title":"Putinism's Defeated Opposition","authors":"Aleksandra Simonova","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0087","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The shocking scope and brutality of Russia's invasion of Ukraine have prompted legions of journalists, pundits, and academics to try to explain the conditions, rationale, and possible outcomes of Vladimir Putin's war, often by drawing connections back to the Soviet and imperial periods. In this cluttered and uneven field of interpretation and polemic, Russian leftist activist, art critic, and historian Ilya Budraitskis's new collection of essays, Dissidents Among Dissidents, comes as a much-needed intervention","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"35 1","pages":"150 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89102244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:If the prodigies of human creativity now transforming the structures of the globe take place under the aegis of the multinational corporations and governments dedicated to their interests, life will become more ingeniously bureaucratic and manipulative. The air we breathe will be at risk. There will be more new poor in advanced countries with prosperous minorities, precarious majorities, and a growing class of the marginalized. There will be more children dying in the Third World in order to maintain the old international order of injustice
{"title":"The Future Will Be Radical","authors":"M. Harrington","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0089","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:If the prodigies of human creativity now transforming the structures of the globe take place under the aegis of the multinational corporations and governments dedicated to their interests, life will become more ingeniously bureaucratic and manipulative. The air we breathe will be at risk. There will be more new poor in advanced countries with prosperous minorities, precarious majorities, and a growing class of the marginalized. There will be more children dying in the Third World in order to maintain the old international order of injustice","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"48 1","pages":"160 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86316243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Today, the United States is no longer segregated as a matter of explicit law. But throughout the country—in cities and rural areas, blue states and red ones—racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. Alongside real improvements since the high tide of Jim Crow, recent decades have brought profound backsliding, and many communities and institutions are more segregated now than they were thirty years ago. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority. Segregation has long undermined the left's transformative ambitions and it remains a direct threat today.
{"title":"Our Segregation Problem","authors":"A. Rana","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Today, the United States is no longer segregated as a matter of explicit law. But throughout the country—in cities and rural areas, blue states and red ones—racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. Alongside real improvements since the high tide of Jim Crow, recent decades have brought profound backsliding, and many communities and institutions are more segregated now than they were thirty years ago. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority. Segregation has long undermined the left's transformative ambitions and it remains a direct threat today.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"15 1","pages":"22 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87246386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:I became a teenage socialist after reading George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. It was the second of his books I picked up, after Down and Out in Paris and London, which appealed to me after working a few bad jobs. While my situation as a dishwasher making some extra cash to buy CDs and magazines was not the same as the miners and porters toiling in the 1930s—I could, and did, quit anytime I wanted—I recognized something of what Or-well was describing in the abuses and exploitation I had seen and experienced in the kitchens, and I was looking for a politics that could fight such injustice.
{"title":"Why Are You a Socialist?","authors":"Natasha Lewis","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0066","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:I became a teenage socialist after reading George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. It was the second of his books I picked up, after Down and Out in Paris and London, which appealed to me after working a few bad jobs. While my situation as a dishwasher making some extra cash to buy CDs and magazines was not the same as the miners and porters toiling in the 1930s—I could, and did, quit anytime I wanted—I recognized something of what Or-well was describing in the abuses and exploitation I had seen and experienced in the kitchens, and I was looking for a politics that could fight such injustice.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"137 1","pages":"4 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79683515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Socialism hasn't shrunk back into the purely marginal status it held before the Great Recession, but we don't have anything like the influence that seemed within our grasp just two years ago. At best, we are stalled out. It's possible this is just a brief pause before resuming our advance. But it could also mark the beginning of a prolonged deadlock—or the early phase of a precipitous decline.
{"title":"Where Do We Go From Here?","authors":"T. Shenk","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0069","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Socialism hasn't shrunk back into the purely marginal status it held before the Great Recession, but we don't have anything like the influence that seemed within our grasp just two years ago. At best, we are stalled out. It's possible this is just a brief pause before resuming our advance. But it could also mark the beginning of a prolonged deadlock—or the early phase of a precipitous decline.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"63 1","pages":"15 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89185083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Columbus County, North Carolina, is a great flat reach of farms and homes and timberland where August days get so heavy-hot that, as someone once put it to me, "the birds don't sing." By land area, it is one of the biggest counties in the state. It sits on the South Carolina border, stretching west and south of Wilmington. On its northeastern edge, it touches the Cape Fear River, and then the county line dives west until it finds the Lumber River and follows it southwest to the state line. Much of its land is quite literally backwater—wetlands upstream of rivers.
摘要:北卡罗来纳州的哥伦布县是一片广阔的平原，那里有农场、住宅和林地，8月份的天气非常炎热，就像有人曾经对我说的那样，“鸟儿不唱歌”。按土地面积计算，它是该州最大的县之一。它坐落在南卡罗来纳边境，从威尔明顿向西和向南延伸。在它的东北边缘，它与开普菲尔河(Cape Fear River)相连，然后县界向西延伸，直到它找到了Lumber河，并沿着它向西南延伸到州界。它的大部分土地实际上是河流上游的回水湿地。
{"title":"Who Rules the Rural South?","authors":"Jesse Williams","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0081","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Columbus County, North Carolina, is a great flat reach of farms and homes and timberland where August days get so heavy-hot that, as someone once put it to me, \"the birds don't sing.\" By land area, it is one of the biggest counties in the state. It sits on the South Carolina border, stretching west and south of Wilmington. On its northeastern edge, it touches the Cape Fear River, and then the county line dives west until it finds the Lumber River and follows it southwest to the state line. Much of its land is quite literally backwater—wetlands upstream of rivers.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"3 1","pages":"108 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76969088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I became a socialist at age sixteen, thanks to a lucky Google search and my first experience of wage labor.
摘要:由于一次幸运的谷歌搜索和我第一次雇佣劳动的经历，我在16岁时成为了一名社会主义者。
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Abstract:Nikil Saval was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate in 2020. Insofar as there is a typical path to American public office, Saval didn't follow it. The New York Times called him the "n+1 candidate" (after the magazine he used to co-edit); he was a reporter and essayist, and the author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace. He was also an organizer with UNITE HERE from 2009 to 2013, and, fatefully, his Philadelphia home became a canvassing hub for the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016. In August, I spoke with Saval about his experiences in office, and the connection between socialist ideas and everyday politics
{"title":"What Socialist Politicians Can Do: An Interview with Nikil Saval","authors":"Nick Serpe, Nikil Saval","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Nikil Saval was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate in 2020. Insofar as there is a typical path to American public office, Saval didn't follow it. The New York Times called him the \"n+1 candidate\" (after the magazine he used to co-edit); he was a reporter and essayist, and the author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace. He was also an organizer with UNITE HERE from 2009 to 2013, and, fatefully, his Philadelphia home became a canvassing hub for the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016. In August, I spoke with Saval about his experiences in office, and the connection between socialist ideas and everyday politics","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"19 1","pages":"92 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78496538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:During my adolescence in the 1950s, I began to understand that, in my immediate family, we were socialists of the democratic variety. My father was a labor lawyer and a staunch believer in collective bargaining. My mother, an English teacher at Queens College, had spent the Depression years as a social worker. New Dealers and active reform Democrats, their socialism was made manifest in the New York City institutions they cherished: public-sector unions, public education, public libraries, public housing, public health, public parks.
{"title":"Park Socialists","authors":"W. Kornblum","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0079","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During my adolescence in the 1950s, I began to understand that, in my immediate family, we were socialists of the democratic variety. My father was a labor lawyer and a staunch believer in collective bargaining. My mother, an English teacher at Queens College, had spent the Depression years as a social worker. New Dealers and active reform Democrats, their socialism was made manifest in the New York City institutions they cherished: public-sector unions, public education, public libraries, public housing, public health, public parks.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"45 1","pages":"89 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87975267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:There is a masterpiece in J. Bradford DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia, and a very interesting muddle. Humanity, the Berkeley economist argues, spent nearly the entirety of its history condemned to poverty by an insufficient supply of calories and a chronically excessive birth rate. But in the "long twentieth century"—the period between 1870 and 2010—an almost miraculous transformation took place: more and more people lived longer, healthier, more prosperous lives than ever before. Arenas of intellect and creative expression that were once accessible only to the most privileged of elites became the common experiences of mass cultures. Humans did not find utopia, DeLong argues, but we stumbled in its general direction.
{"title":"A Dose of Rational Optimism","authors":"Z. D. Carter","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0088","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:There is a masterpiece in J. Bradford DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia, and a very interesting muddle. Humanity, the Berkeley economist argues, spent nearly the entirety of its history condemned to poverty by an insufficient supply of calories and a chronically excessive birth rate. But in the \"long twentieth century\"—the period between 1870 and 2010—an almost miraculous transformation took place: more and more people lived longer, healthier, more prosperous lives than ever before. Arenas of intellect and creative expression that were once accessible only to the most privileged of elites became the common experiences of mass cultures. Humans did not find utopia, DeLong argues, but we stumbled in its general direction.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"22 1","pages":"155 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74531952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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