DissentPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2023.0027
Amy Zanoni
{"title":"Abortion Is Healthcare: Lessons From a Public Hospital","authors":"Amy Zanoni","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0027","url":null,"abstract":"F E M IN IS M A F t E R D O B B S Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, many have invoked the coat hanger and the public hospital septic abortion ward as portents of life after the fall of Roe. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker was one of many pro-choice advocates who made direct reference to Ward 41 at Chicago’s public hospital, Cook County Hospital. But by only paying attention to the horror stories of botched abortions in the pre-Roe era, we miss the other lessons that public hospitals like Cook County can teach us: even during Roe, access to abortion was limited, hard-fought, and dependent on local conditions. Public hospitals are key to understanding the brutal consequences of policies that limit people’s access to healthcare, as well as the role that local governments often play in a country with no national healthcare system. In providing care to everyone who came through its doors, the public hospital approximated the right to healthcare. When county, state, and federal lawmakers undermined the right to reproductive care, Chicagoans demanded its reinstatement at Cook County Hospital. these struggles and the hospital’s history shed light on the importance of tethering demands for reproductive rights to a more expansive welfare state and healthcare system. they also help us understand the crucial importance of federal action.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"22 1","pages":"33 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91312385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0073
K. Pollitt
{"title":"My Name for Hope","authors":"K. Pollitt","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0073","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Socialism—democratic socialism—has experienced a revival, thanks largely to Bernie Sanders, who is actually not a socialist but a New Deal Democrat. Calling himself a socialist probably didn't help Sanders win votes. In 2019, when asked if they would vote for various kinds of people for president, socialist came in dead last at 47 percent—the same percentage as in 2015—after Muslim, \"over the age of 70,\" and atheist. But socialism gave people, especially young people, a name for their rage at the status quo and helped boost membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization to which Sanders does not belong, to around 90,000","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"14 1","pages":"44 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82395654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0074
Sam Adler-Bell
{"title":"Can DSA Go the Distance?","authors":"Sam Adler-Bell","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0074","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The high point of my involvement in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was the spring of 2018, when I served, somewhat implausibly, as a delegate to the New York City chapter's convention. In my memory, the day was warm and dotted with colored light filtering in through the high stained-glass windows at Judson Memorial Church near Washington Square Park. A sense of history pervaded the proceedings. Hundreds of activists had gathered to chart the future of the largest chapter of the largest socialist organization in America, recently inundated with members reeling from the syncopated blows of 2016: Bernie's tragic loss, Trump's farcical victory.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"33 1","pages":"48 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75808614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0067
Sarah Jones
{"title":"Masters of Nothing","authors":"Sarah Jones","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0067","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:MasterClass, the online-learning platform, would probably not exist without a culture shaped by meritocratic mythology. It's not college but something better—video lessons without the burdens of student loan debt or the awkwardness of dorm life. Nobody earns a degree from MasterClass, which sells individual subscriptions for $180 a year, but credentials aren't really the point. MasterClass supplements the grind of work and life with a certain egalitarian flourish. Here, anyone can learn to succeed. Anyone can sit down in front of their computer and watch a video. Anyone can improve themselves.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"55 1","pages":"6 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81098229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0076
Nick Serpe
{"title":"A Living Tradition","authors":"Nick Serpe","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0076","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Dissent was first published at a low point for the American left. The editors decried the McCarthyist conflagration of the 1950s, which had cast a pall over radicals throughout the country, no matter how sterling their anti-Stalinist credentials. And repression wasn't the only problem. A combination of factors—a burgeoning consumer society, the strides made toward a welfare state during the Great Depression, the material dividends of global supremacy, and the nationalist spirit of the Cold War, to name a few—had relegated socialism to the margins of American life. The high tide of civil rights struggle and the second-wave feminist and gay awakenings were off in the future; union leaders had assumed a more conservative posture in the wake of Taft-Hartley. What did it mean to be a democratic socialist in such a moment?","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"9 1","pages":"66 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85221175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0075
M. Kazin
{"title":"We're All Social Democrats Now","authors":"M. Kazin","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0075","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the spring of 1973, Michael Harrington called on members of the new Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, which he chaired, to build \"the left wing of realism.\" Over time, he replaced \"realism\" with \"the possible,\" but the sensibility endured. Throughout the two-century history of socialism, at least the untyrannical kind, most of its adherents have tried to balance their dream of a humane and fully egalitarian order with the need to fight for changes in the only world they would ever know","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"82 1","pages":"62 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88285182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0083
Gabriel Winant
{"title":"The Forcefield of Solidarity","authors":"Gabriel Winant","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0083","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For American workers, as Mike Davis once argued, defeat compounds defeat, creating an ever-growing legacy of workingclass organizations that either shatter or become compromised—racist, or corrupt, or ossified and bureaucratic, or in bed with their enemies, or tiny and weak. These organizations transmit their historical damage onto the subsequent generation; each cohort navigates a set of impossible choices and gives shape to the impossible choices facing the next one. Individual activists, militants, and organizers must confront these legacies, which play out not just within their organizations but within themselves. Yet on rare occasions, workers find an opening and the room to run, and summon the courage to pursue it. In the process, they may transform an existing organization, shoving it in a new direction, or they may shake it off like dead skin and create something new.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"115 1","pages":"130 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80309303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0078
S. Deb
{"title":"Between Flood and Fire","authors":"S. Deb","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0078","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A young friend went to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn earlier this summer. It was his first time on an American beach, and I'd hyped the experience up to him. \"How was it?\" I asked a few days later. \"Amazing,\" he said. He talked about the subway ride to the beach, the concession stands, the cold water. \"A plane flew over our heads while we were there,\" he said. \"It was trailing a banner that said, 'Have hope.'\" That sounds nice, I thought. Who among us doesn't need hope these days? He continued: \"It said, 'Have Hope. Keep Faith. Say No to Abortion.'\"","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"49 1","pages":"86 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78312055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0072
Namwali Serpell
{"title":"A Simple Ethos","authors":"Namwali Serpell","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0072","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Socialism is obviously more sophisticated than \"split the money.\" But my mother was right. Apologetic as I am about it, my decision—and my subsequent ones, like donating prize money to bail funds for protesters, splitting the fee for a short story I wrote among the unpaid interns at the magazine that published it, giving back or splitting the money for any prize with a shortlist—can be seen as an expression, however oblique, of my upbringing as a Zambian socialist. Which is to say, it is far more about spirit than practicality","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"16 1","pages":"38 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83538178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2022.0082
Nir Evron
{"title":"Israel's Rightward Turn","authors":"Nir Evron","doi":"10.1353/dss.2022.0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2022.0082","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu last year and the rise of a short-lived governing coalition that included, for the first time in Israel's history, an Arab party, presented the vanishing liberal left in this country with a much needed—if fleeting—moment of elation.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"49 1","pages":"118 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80787103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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