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Michael Harrington

Born

in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States

February 24, 1928

Died

July 31, 1989

Genre

Politics, Social Sciences

Influences

Max Shachtman, Trotsky, Marx, Bogdan Denitch, Delmore Schwartz, Willia ...more

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Edward Michael Harrington was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, professor of political science, and radio commentator.

Early life

Harrington was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended St. Louis University High School, College of the Holy Cross, University of Chicago (MA in English Literature), and Yale Law School. As a young man, he was interested in both leftwing politics and Catholicism. Fittingly, he joined Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement, a pacifist group that advocated a radical interpretation of the Gospel. Above all else, Harrington was an intellectual. He loved arguing about culture and politics, preferably over beer, and his Jesuit education made him a fine debater and rhetorician. Harrington was ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 2,017 ratings · 209 reviews · 188 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Other America: Poverty in the United States 4.06 avg rating — 1,236 ratings — published 1962 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Socialism: Past and Future by Michael Harrington, Irving Howe (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 1989 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Socialism 4.07 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Politics at God's Funeral: The Spiritual Crisis of Western Civilization 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New American Poverty 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twilight of Capitalism 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Next Left: The History of a Future 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accidental Century 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toward a Democratic Left: A Radical Program for a New Majority 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1968 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragments of the Century 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1973 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages. ”
― Michael Harrington

tags: capitalism, compensation, corporations, executives, management, wages

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“... most people since the dawn of human time have been simply programmed by their birth to a short and brutish life that is not shaped by them or anyone else.”
― Michael Harrington, The Long-Distance Runner: An Autobiography

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“Socialism is still beginning, a task to be accomplished, not a destiny to be awaited.”
― Michael Harrington, Fragments of the Century

tags: socialism

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