http://theactivist.org/blog/michael-harrington-and-the-twilight-of-capitalism <http://theactivist.org/blog/michael-harrington-and-the-twilight-of-capitalism>Michael Harrington is rarely taken seriously as a Marxist thinker—indeed, his Marxism is rarely taken seriously at all, by either his critics or sympathizers. In his biography of Harrington, *The Other American*, Maurice Isserman notes that Harrington “remained a Marxist to the end,” but the Marxist elements of his works often proved “too dilute for the true * marxisantes* among his audience and too abstruse for everyone else.” My aim is to challenge the idea that Harrington’s explicitly Marxist writings are either dilute or abstruse...
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