Gachon Bernie Sanders’s Democratic Socialism

Holding Utopia Accountable
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-69661-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 265 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book provides a framework for understanding and analyzing Bernie Sanders’s democratic socialism, its origins, its maturation, and its evolution between 1972, when Sanders ran for the Vermont gubernatorial election for the first time, and 2020, when he made his second presidential run. The core argument is that Bernie Sanders’s characteristic brand of socialism evolved from the mould of late 19th century utopian radicalism to radical demands for state and corporate accountability in the 21st century, turning into a social movement for reparative justice that rose to national prominence in the wake of the Great Recession in 2008 and of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gachon, Nicolas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Utopianism
1. Marxism and socialism in America1.1 Marxist thought1.2 Debsian socialism1.3 Adhesion withour cohesion
2. Utopida and reform2.1 America's special destiny2.2 Edwars Bellamy, Lincoln Steffens2.3 Utopianism as a political charge
3. Socialism and progressivism3.1 Reform as the "continuing frontier"3.2 Progressive reform and optimism3.3 Karl Polanyi's socialism
Part II: Realpolitik 
4. An experiment in municipal socialism4.1 Mayor Sanders of Burlington4.2 All that socialist "pornography"4.3 Foreign policy as a local issue
5. Embracing the Democratic Party5.1 From local to state and national politicsl5.2 The road to the U.S. Senate5.3 Bernie Sanders's congressional record
6. Bernie Sanders's liberal matrix6.1 The lexicon of the New Deal6.2 Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson6.3 The lexicon of the 1960s
Part III: 99 percent
7. Hegemony7.1 Gramscian hegemony7.2 Americanism7.3 Consent and consensus 
8. Hope8.1 A post-American promise8.2 The Great Recession8.3 A dream deferred
9. Occupying Wall Street9.1 A bipolar political spectrum9.2 Content and form9.3 Neoanarchism 
Part IV: Democratic socialism as reparative justice
10. Enduring injustice10.1 Historicism and collective memory10.2 A failure of liberalism10.3 Restoring an egalitarian liberal order
11. State and corporate responsibility11.1 Enduring responsibility11.2 Liberalism and responsibility11.3 The age of corporate apologies
12. Democratic socialism and the mainstream12.1 Democratic socialism12.2 Democratic socialism and the Democrats12.3 Redistributive justice

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolas Gachon is a specialist in US Politics and Political History at the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. He has also held previous positions with the French Embassies in the United States and in Canada.