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Harrington, Michael was born on February 24, 1928 in St. Louis. Son of Edward Michael and Catherine (Fitzgibbon) Harrington.
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On learning his cancer was inoperable, renowned intellectual Michael Harrington simply asked the doctors to keep him alive long enough to complete a summary statement of the themes I had thought of throughout an activist life.” And they did. Socialism: Past and Future is prominent thinker Michael Harrington’s final contribution: a thoughtful, intelligent, and compassionate treatise on the role of socialism both past and present in modern society. He is convincing in his application of classic socialist theory to current economic situations and modern political systems, and he examines the validity of the idea of visionary gradualism” in bringing about a socialist agenda. He believes that if freedom and justice are to survive into the next century, the socialist movement will be a critical factor. This is the definitive text on the role of socialism throughout history which Publishers Weekly calls succinct, readable” and the New York Times says has a lively air of optimism and boldly challenges traditional ideas.” In this passionate book, the late Michael Harrington draws on a lifetime of thinking and politicking to reject much that has passed for socialism and to define the new forms that will make it the only hope for human freedom and justice” (Foreign Affairs) in the twenty-first century.
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The author presents the ideas of the New Left, in a clear and concise form, well-written and relevant. He also looks at controversial issues such as unemployment, the status of the welfare state, the new conservatism, the implications of computer -based automation, and the end of the 'work ethic'. 195 pages. 9.25 x 6 inches. I. B. Tauris, London, England, 1987.
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"This is a hopeful book about decadence." With these words, the author, whose "The Other America" stirred our nation's conscience, begins his thoughtful, highly provocative dissection of the cultural and intellectual crisis confronting the United States in this, the Accidental Century. This crisis has been brought about by the "accidental revolution," in which an unplanned social and creative technology has casually generated radically new human environments. As a result, every Western creed is in doubt. Businessmen are unwittingly subverting capitalism, and socialists are confronted by a revolution without revolutionists. Many theologians agree with Nietzsche that God is dead, but atheists are not particularly joyous about the fact. Some democrats are fearful because the masses have learned to read and threaten, they say, to pull culture down. Economists can no longer console themselves with the sad wisdom that there is not enough for all and now must face up to the bewildering potential of abundance. A few great artists have made a "magnificent decadence" by using all this chaos as a unique vantage point, but that hardly compensates for the wars, depressions, and breakdowns that have implicated the over¬whelming majority. The issue is not, Mr. Harrington argues, whether the future will be radically different from the past but, rather, how it will differ. Either men will consciously and democratically choose a new society or a new society will rudely choose them, destroying the Western ideal of freedom in the process. But if the Accidental Century is made purposive by the political intervention of man, then the various decadences described in this book will be, like the waning of the Middle Ages, the prelude to -renaissance.
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Harrington, Michael was born on February 24, 1928 in St. Louis. Son of Edward Michael and Catherine (Fitzgibbon) Harrington.
Bachelor of Arts, Holy Cross College, 1947; postgraduate, Yale Law School, 1947-1948; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1949; Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Bard College, 1966.
Associate editor, Catholic Worker, 1951-1952; organization secretary, Workers Defense League, 1953; consultant, Fund for Republic, 1954-1989; editor, New American, 1961-1962; organizer, March on Convs. Movement, 1960; professor political science, Queens College, City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 1972-1989.
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Member national executive committee Socialist Party, 1960-1972, national chairman, 1968-1972. Chairman organizing committee Democratic Socialists American, 1973-1982, co-chairman of organization, 1982-1989. Board directors Workers Defense League, American Civil Liberties Union.
Married Stephanie Gervis, May 30, 1963.