 | Drummond (54)
12/21/2005 | He was the spokesman for American democratic socialism from the death of Norman Thomas to his own death. His book The Other America was found on Kennedy's desk after he died, and the book is credited for being one of the major influences leading to the war on poverty of the 1960s. One of the founders of DSA, he was considered a moderate in the New Left and found himself somewhat estranged from his fellow Port Huron document signers because he was not enamored with third world liberation movements, particularly not the Viet Cong, nor Castro. In the early 1970s, he participated in a famous debate with Peter Camejo at which he was booed for pointing out that Karl Marx had publicly endorsed both Lincoln and A. Johnson.
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