Swordsmyth
01-21-2019, 05:53 PM
Maryland has certified a socialist party to run candidates in the next two election cycles, in what is being described as the country's first new socialist party (https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/socialism) in four decades.
The party, called Bread and Roses (https://www.breadandroses.us/), identifies itself as an alternative to the two-party system. With the certification, that alternative can now put up candidates for local, state and national elections -- including the presidential race -- in 2020 and 2022.
“It’s a new kind of socialism,” the founder, University of Maryland professor Jerome Segal, told Fox News.
Segal last year ran unsuccessfully as a socialist in the Democratic Party’s primary against incumbent Sen. Ben Cardin. He lost, left the Democratic Party -- and won certification from the state Board of Elections for this new effort after submitting a petition with more than 10,000 signatures.
“It is believed that the new party is the first democratic socialist party to be established in the United States in the last four decades,” a Bread and Roses press release said.
Though their press release stresses Democratic socialism, Segal said the Bread and Roses Party does not follow its tenets chapter and verse.
Its website says: "An Electoral Party for both New Socialists and Non-Socialists, A Party with a Strong Utopian and International Orientation, One in Pursuit of a New American Dream."
Bread and Roses, Segal said, embraces free public college education, equal distribution of wealth and universal health care, for instance, but it differs from many socialists groups in that it doesn’t seek to push a certain policy or platform.
A core tenet of Segal’s socialist party is that the "American Dream" should move away from its emphasis on a job-centered life and toward one devoted to quality time spent on relationships and interests. It supports entrepreneurship and home ownership.
“Reformulating the American dream, to have a moderate level of consumption but with the social and economic security that comes from meaningful work, and allows people to meet their needs, at least enough to have leisure, and do things that are important to them, like going to church, spending time with their kids … our roots and values are much broader,” he said.
More at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-certifies-a-socialist-party-to-run-candidates-in-local-state-and-national-elections
The party, called Bread and Roses (https://www.breadandroses.us/), identifies itself as an alternative to the two-party system. With the certification, that alternative can now put up candidates for local, state and national elections -- including the presidential race -- in 2020 and 2022.
“It’s a new kind of socialism,” the founder, University of Maryland professor Jerome Segal, told Fox News.
Segal last year ran unsuccessfully as a socialist in the Democratic Party’s primary against incumbent Sen. Ben Cardin. He lost, left the Democratic Party -- and won certification from the state Board of Elections for this new effort after submitting a petition with more than 10,000 signatures.
“It is believed that the new party is the first democratic socialist party to be established in the United States in the last four decades,” a Bread and Roses press release said.
Though their press release stresses Democratic socialism, Segal said the Bread and Roses Party does not follow its tenets chapter and verse.
Its website says: "An Electoral Party for both New Socialists and Non-Socialists, A Party with a Strong Utopian and International Orientation, One in Pursuit of a New American Dream."
Bread and Roses, Segal said, embraces free public college education, equal distribution of wealth and universal health care, for instance, but it differs from many socialists groups in that it doesn’t seek to push a certain policy or platform.
A core tenet of Segal’s socialist party is that the "American Dream" should move away from its emphasis on a job-centered life and toward one devoted to quality time spent on relationships and interests. It supports entrepreneurship and home ownership.
“Reformulating the American dream, to have a moderate level of consumption but with the social and economic security that comes from meaningful work, and allows people to meet their needs, at least enough to have leisure, and do things that are important to them, like going to church, spending time with their kids … our roots and values are much broader,” he said.
More at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-certifies-a-socialist-party-to-run-candidates-in-local-state-and-national-elections