"The Case for an Independent Left Party" (Hawkins)

Howie Hawkins accompanied his 2020 presidential campaign with a publication that's not a memoir but, in essence, a white paper. If that doesn't differentiate him from some of his Democratic counterparts, then his political strategy for working-class progressives does.
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I like that The Case for an Independent Left Party approaches political parties as an operational structure rather than a political platform. In that regard, neither the Green Party that Hawkins co-founded nor the Democratic Party he critiques serves as the book's focus.

I was hungry for more than a few sentences on coalition governance, one of my topics of interest. Nonetheless, The Case for an Independent Left Party offers a class perspective of political organizations for which I had a weak lens.​

​A book review of The Case for an Independent Left Party (Howie Hawkins)

​Recommender/Reference: howiehawkins.us

"The Case for an Independent Left Party" (howiehawkins.us)

Green Party's 10 Key Values: 1) Grassroots Democracy 2) Ecological Wisdom 3) Global Responsibility & Personal Responsibility 4) Community-Based Economics & Economic Justice 5) Non-Violence 6) Feminism & Gender Equity 7) Respect for Diversity 8) Future Focus & Sustainability 9) Social Justice & Equal Opportunity 10) Decentralization

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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find dozens of her reviews, including the one on The Case for an Independent Left Party by Howie Hawkins, at landturn.com/reviews.

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