"If You Seek a Culprit, Blame Capitalism"

"It took more than 40 years in the political desert, however, until Harrington's strategy was so decisively vindicated—40 years in which the economy grew steadily harsher. In the 1970s and '80s, the constraints that unions and New Deal legislation had placed on corporate conduct had yet to fully erode. During that time, the Los Angeles DSA chapter, in which I was active, never had more than roughly 350 members (one of them a spy from the Ed Davis-Daryl Gates-era Los Angeles Police Department). Today, the L.A. chapter has close to 1,500 members, campaigning for rent control, for shuttering ICE, for single-payer health insurance. Most are millennials, who need no instruction in how our economic system curtails prosperity and breeds plutocracy."

Harold Meyerson in the Los Angeles Times writes that "American socialism is having one hot summer."