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A socialist view in America Samuel R. Friedman has a Ph.D. in sociology. He is the author of Teamster Rank and File (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982) and a number of articles on workers’ struggles, labor markets, and social movements. While in and around the International Socialists (USA) in 1969-79, he took part in many struggles, including helping to organize Teamsters for a Democratic Union and being an active rank-and-file oppositionist in the American Federation of Teachers. He has since taken part in many other struggles, including the organizing of a union at National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., his workplace since 1983. (He is currently a Senior Research Fellow there.) He is also an author of more than three hundred publications on HIV and drug use epidemiology and prevention; and of Friedman SR, Curtis R, Neaigus A, Jose B, Des Jarlais DC, Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS. (1999. New York: Kluwer/Plenum). He is also a published poet, with many of his poems being widely used in movement circles. Making the World Anew: Introduction by Samuel R. Friedman, PhD What happens after workers take power? This paper uses a Hegelian-Marxist dialectic to see this period in terms of the struggles we will have to go through—in all their liberatory glory as well as their real difficulties and passions. It asks, given the global ecological crisis, the need to address historical inequalities and oppressions among peoples and within peoples and the working class, and the political insistence by victorious and mobilized workers to create improvements in social-material life, what are the struggles we will go through as we attempt to make the world anew? Read More... |
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