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Radical Socialist Parties: Their Place and Misplace

- by Bruce Lerro - Leave a Comment

This is a good article which summarizes a lot of the failed attempts of social-democratic parties around the world. It touches on the short-comings of the Greens, Socialist Alternative and ISO. What we like best is the insistence that the party be working class and that it focus on the lack of democracy in unions. Our problem with this is that union shops are only about 12% of the workforce.

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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his four books: From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World Co-Authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present and Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia WA.

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