Michael Harrington on Socialism, American Politics, and the "Death" of Religion.
Activist Michael Harrington has been a leader of the American left for the last thirty years. In the 1950s, he was the associate editor of The Catholic Worker, a socialist, Catholic newspaper. In the 1960s, he worked with the Civil Rights movement, including joining Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Advisory Committee. He was also active in the labor movement and worked against the war in Vietnam. Harrington chaired the Socialist Party from 1968-1972, and has been the National Chair of the Democratic National Socialists of America since 1973. An early book of Harrington's, "The Other America," helped spur Presidents Kennedy and Johnson's War on Poverty. He is currently working on a new analysis of poverty to be published in August and title "The New American Poverty." His latest book is "The Politics at God's Funeral: The Spiritual Crisis of Western Civilization." He joins the show to discuss his intellectual and political work and the upcoming election.
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