Tonight’s show will air audio that was recorded on October 20, 2012 at a forum sponsored by the Boston local of Democratic Socialists of America. Speakers included SEIU Political Director Harris Gruman, Mass NOW PAC Chair Christina Knowles, Mass Alliance Deputy Director Jordan Berg Powers, and Dorchester People for Peace activist Jeff Klein.
Harris Gruman is Massachusetts Political Director for the…
October 29, 2012
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2 responses to “10/31 What's at Stake: The 2012 Elections and the Left”
mike and brandy
October 30th, 2012 at 21:24
democratic socialists of america? how does that ‘jive’ with the constitution of the United States? might be a good question to ask ourselves since that IS and Should be the bedrock of our representative goverment.
marxist/socialism is Atithetical to US Constitutional Representative Democracy.
-mike
Harris
October 31st, 2012 at 23:56
Hey Mike, “America the Beautiful” and the Pledge of Allegiance were written by Democratic Socialists. That some dictatorships call themselves “socialist” and others call themselves “democracies” does not make either set of values and ideas inseparable from dictatorship. If socialist values are antithetical to our constitution, which I don’t believe, then public schools, the income tax, and Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, policies with socialist origins, might also be. But the constitution is a framework for governance, not a set of policies.