The sprawling American Left knows what it opposes, but it rarely articulates a shared vision of the world we want. Don’t miss this fierce debate on the Left’s relation to liberalism, its historical gains and failures, and its relation to the ecological catastrophe ahead. You can get a taste of this debate by clicking on each article and reading the first few paragraphs.
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| Does America Need a Left? An Introduction by Michael Lerner |
 America needs a spiritual Left – not a soul- deprived, economistic, and narrowly rights- oriented movement that plays into the hands of the Right.[brclear]Read More » |
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| Why the Left Needs America: A Response to Eli Zaretsky’sWhy America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument by James Livingston |
 To be effective the Left must learn to retell the story of America’s founding. In that sense, the Left needs America more than America needs a Left.[brclear]Read More » |
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| The Past, Present, and Future of the American Left by Eli Zaretsky |
 Retelling a liberalist story of America’s founding will never yield what we need: a self-aware Left with a proper conception of capitalism.[brclear]Read More » |
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| Enter the Alter-Left: Reviving Our Revolutionary Nerve by Chaia Heller |
 Anti-neoliberal mobilizations in Latin America, WTO protests in Seattle, and Occupy Wall Street have catalyzed a promising force: the Alter-Left.[brclear]Read More » |
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| Joining the Party for a More Powerful Left by Jeremy Varon |
 The Left spends too much energy deciding whom to exclude. Let’s build a pluralistic, big-tent Left that embraces all with liberal-Left political faith.[brclear]Read More » |
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| Prospects for a Resurgence of the U.S. Left by Barbara Epstein |
 How can the Left overcome its fragmentation? Forming a coalition against neoliberalism and environmental degradation is one way to start.[brclear]Read More » |
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| Climate Disaster Demands an Ecological Left by Janet Biehl |
 Scorching heat, floods, and wildfires are not just environmental crises – they’re social ones too. We need a Left that sees the primacy of this threat.[brclear]Read More » |
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| What Kind of Left Does America Need? by Stanley Aronowitz |
 Reviving our radical imagination, launching a political education program, and creating a new political formation must be the priorities of today’s Left.[brclear]Read More » |
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| Liberalism and the Left by Tim Barker |
 Younger leftists will work to preserve our country’s social welfare architecture – but we’re also setting our sights on revolutionary ends![brclear]Read More » |
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| Loving-Kindness to the Thousandth Generation by Ana Levy-Lyons |
 Violence can take on a life of its own, rippling in unexpected directions. But our religious traditions teach us that love proliferates exponentially more.[brclear]Read More » |
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| Political Posters for the Twenty-First Century: A Spotlight on the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative by Paul Von Blum |
 Surveillance. War. Immigration. Palestine. Social justice heroes. Occupy. The political posters of the Justseeds collective take on all this and more.[brclear]Read More » |
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| What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal? by Margaret Morganroth Gullette |
 Suicide has become a public health emergency for middle-aged men in the United States, exposing a deeper economic and existential crisis.[brclear]Read More » |
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| Faith and the Metaphor Muscle by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew |
 Review ofWriting to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Withinby Karen Hering.[brclear]Read More » |
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| A Secular Analysis of Evil by Marilyn Glaim |
 Review ofTrauma Bond: An Inquiry into the Nature of Evilby Lawrence Swaim. [brclear]Read More » |
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| Joyful Poems of Leave-Taking and Transience by David Danoff |
 Review ofWithout a Claimby Grace Schulman.[brclear]Read More » |
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| POETRY: Joe Louis’s Fist by Peter Balakian |
 “My father said when Louis won, the radio static was a wave / of sound that stayed all night like the riots blocks away in Harlem, / as the scent of lilac and gin wafted down Broadway to his window.” A poem by Peter Balakian.[brclear]Read More » |
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| POETRY: The Legend of How the Tao Te Ching Came Into Being on Laotse’s Journey Into Exile by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Jon Swan |
 “When he was seventy and fragile, / the Teacher felt compelled to seek repose, / for the Good within the land was on the wane, / and Evil gaining strength again. / So he drew on his shoe.” Jon Swan’s translation of a poem by Bertolt Brecht.[brclear]Read More » |
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| The Tikkun Passover Supplement by Michael Lerner |
 The Jewish liberation holiday, Passover, has messages for anyone seeking to heal the world. This supplement expands on the Haggadah (Seder guide).[brclear]Read More » |
Does America need a vision? S.O.P. Save Our Planet and a gift economy by basing the economy on the modus of sharing.
See more on http://www.share-international.org
Give it some time, room and space perhaps, it is substantial!!