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About Derik Schneider

I use a picture of John F. Kennedy as my profile pic on social media for as a very good reason: I'm a center-right, John F. Kennedy, Liberal Democrat. The real Liberals who believe in the defense of liberal democracy and the fight against authoritarianism, left-wing or right-wing. But I blog a lot about the Far-Left (or new-left, if you prefer) because I'm very interested in socialism and communism, as well as center-left progressivism, which is the real progressivism.

Democracy Journal: Rich Yeselson: What New Left History Gave Us

Source:Democracy Journal For someone whose really interested in liberalism instead of socialism, than I suggest you read about John F. Kennedy and Wendell Willkie. Because back in the early 1960s and really through that decade even with the emergence of … Continue reading

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Salon: Opinion: Mike Conrad: America’s Anti-Liberal Myth: Why Democrats Learned The Wrong Less From 1984

Salon: Opinion: Mike Conrad: America’s Anti-Liberal Myth: Why Democrats Learned The Wrong Lesson From 1984 Just correct some of the things that Mike Conrad said. Walter Mondale lost badly in 1984 to Ronald Reagan winning just one state and just … Continue reading

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Al Jazeera: Inside USA- ‘Angela Davis on The Prison Industrial Complex’

Source:Al Jazeera– Professor Angela Davis on Inside USA. “Put on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ list when she was just 26, Angela Davis became an enduring symbol of 1970’s Black Power. She joins Inside USA to discuss incarceration in the land … Continue reading

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CNN: Angela Davis On Buchanan/Braden (1984)

Source:CNN– New-Left Communist activist on CNN’s Buchanan/Braden in 1984. “Angela Davis on Buchanan/Braden. Strange debate circa 1984.” Source:Mike Gardner Good to hear the so-called Liberal or Progressive on this show, (which of course would’ve been Tom Braden. If you were … Continue reading

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The Daily Beast: Lawrence Gelb: GOP Hates Barack Obama More Than a Nuclear Iran

The Daily Beast Even through Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is the strongest and most powerful Republican in Congress and that includes the Speaker of the House John Boehner, who outranks him in the U.S. Constitution, being a stronger leader than … Continue reading

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The Nation: Richard Kreitner- ‘FDR Signs The Emergency Act, Launching The New Deal: March 9, 1933’

Source:The Nation– 1930s America. “Today in 1933 the newly inaugurated President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Emergency Banking Act, officially launching the New Deal. The act allowed the Federal Reserve to guarantee the assets of banks that Roosevelt had ordered closed … Continue reading

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AP Archive: Angela Davis- Radical on Trial

Source:AP Archive Angela Davis should’ve never have been in jail, at least for what she was charged with here. Which was being involved in a Marin County court-house shootout in 1970. They had nothing on her other than the fact … Continue reading

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Movie Clips: ‘Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2012)’

Source:Movie Clips– from the documentary Free Angela, which is about New-Left political activist Angela Davis. “A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that … Continue reading

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Sam Seder: Philip Mirowski: ‘How Neoliberalism Survived The Financial Meltdown?’

Source:Sam Seder– talking about Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. (I presume) “Professor Philip Mirowski author of Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, explains the intellectual history of Neo-liberalism, what Neo-liberals believe, making capitalists … Continue reading

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The American Prospect: Robert Kuttner: ‘The Libertarian Delusion’

Source:The American Prospect Just to start off about the so-called free market and if we’re going to talk about the free market we might as well talk about Santa Clause since neither one of them exists. As much as Libertarians … Continue reading

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