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What if the Left for?

From Breakthrough, Dan Sarewitz on liberalism’s modest proposals. Eric Rauchway reviews books on liberalism. From Anarchist Studies, Chris Dixon on building “another politics”: The contemporary anti-authoritarian current in the U.S. and Canada. From Guernica, Rebecca Solnit and David Graeber on anarchism as a problem-solving tool, the return of debtors’ prisons, and why communism is ingrained in capitalism. A review of The Crisis and the Left: Socialist Register 2012. From The Point, a symposium on What if the Left For?, including Michael Berube on Libya and the Left; Peter Bratsis on the Two Lefts; an interview with Bill Ayers; and more on Michael Kazin’s American Dreamers. The American left, liberalism, and equality: An interview with Eli Zaretsky, author of Why America Needs a Left. From The American Spectator, Paul Kengor on The Nation's Top 50 Progressives — and socialists and communists: Did Katrina vanden Heuvel think no one would notice her magazine's affinity with friends of Joseph Stalin?; and we're all Leninists now: Everyone's an intellectual, changing the world and transforming our lives.