Harvey J Kaye
@harveyjkaye.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus of Democracy @UWGB #AFTunion & Award-winning #Author/editor of 18 books + CoAuthor of 21C Economic Bill of Rights https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-bill-of-rights 🌹🇺🇸
From Eleanor Roosevelt:
The 4 Equalities
The 4 Equalities
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
From Eleanor Roosevelt:
The 4 Equalities
The 4 Equalities
#FDR "I have always believed and frequently have stated that my own party (the Democrats) can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism “ (1938)
Militant liberalism = social democracy!
Militant liberalism = social democracy!
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#FDR "I have always believed and frequently have stated that my own party (the Democrats) can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism “ (1938)
Militant liberalism = social democracy!
Militant liberalism = social democracy!
#FDR "I have always believed and frequently have stated that my own party (the Democrats) can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism “ (1938)
Militant liberalism = social democracy!
Militant liberalism = social democracy!
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#FDR "I have always believed and frequently have stated that my own party (the Democrats) can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism “ (1938)
Militant liberalism = social democracy!
Militant liberalism = social democracy!
Dems won big… now if only they knew who they were and what is to be done! My advice… study up on FDR, the New Deal, and social democracy.
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Dems won big… now if only they knew who they were and what is to be done! My advice… study up on FDR, the New Deal, and social democracy.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again -Thomas Paine, Common Sense, ‘76
In every generation, Paine has inspired Americans to struggle not just for #NoKings, but also freedom, equality, and democracy for all Americans!
In every generation, Paine has inspired Americans to struggle not just for #NoKings, but also freedom, equality, and democracy for all Americans!
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
We have it in our power to begin the world over again -Thomas Paine, Common Sense, ‘76
In every generation, Paine has inspired Americans to struggle not just for #NoKings, but also freedom, equality, and democracy for all Americans!
In every generation, Paine has inspired Americans to struggle not just for #NoKings, but also freedom, equality, and democracy for all Americans!
“NO KINGS” SHOULD ENCOMPASS NOT ONLY THE OBVIOUS POLITICAL ASPIRANT, BUT ALSO — AS FDR PUT IT BACK IN 1936 — THE “ECONOMIC ROYALISTS”…
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“NO KINGS” SHOULD ENCOMPASS NOT ONLY THE OBVIOUS POLITICAL ASPIRANT, BUT ALSO — AS FDR PUT IT BACK IN 1936 — THE “ECONOMIC ROYALISTS”…
I hope some day we finally come to appreciate how our 3 greatest leaders – Washington, Lincoln, FDR – were made truly great by working people (artisans, farmers, & slaves/slaves, farmers, & workers/farmers & workers) pushing them from the bottom up in the 1770s/1860s/1930s...
October 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I hope some day we finally come to appreciate how our 3 greatest leaders – Washington, Lincoln, FDR – were made truly great by working people (artisans, farmers, & slaves/slaves, farmers, & workers/farmers & workers) pushing them from the bottom up in the 1770s/1860s/1930s...
Not just no kings!
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power.”— #FDR 1936
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power.”— #FDR 1936
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Not just no kings!
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power.”— #FDR 1936
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power.”— #FDR 1936
La lucha continua
The struggle is not over
The struggle is not over
October 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
La lucha continua
The struggle is not over
The struggle is not over
The struggle is not over
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The struggle is not over
Flying #GRB>#DTW>#YYZ today on Delta: As ever, in #SOLIDARITY with @afadelta.bsky.social
@afacwa.org
@FlyingWithSara.bsky.social
@evansutton.bsky.social
@daborer.bsky.social
@afacwa.org
@FlyingWithSara.bsky.social
@evansutton.bsky.social
@daborer.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Flying #GRB>#DTW>#YYZ today on Delta: As ever, in #SOLIDARITY with @afadelta.bsky.social
@afacwa.org
@FlyingWithSara.bsky.social
@evansutton.bsky.social
@daborer.bsky.social
@afacwa.org
@FlyingWithSara.bsky.social
@evansutton.bsky.social
@daborer.bsky.social
#ThomasPaine made the fundamental case for #NoKings in Common Sense (1776) and turned our colonial rebellion into a Revolution for American independence and a democratic republic 🇺🇸
October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#ThomasPaine made the fundamental case for #NoKings in Common Sense (1776) and turned our colonial rebellion into a Revolution for American independence and a democratic republic 🇺🇸
We know what we have to do!
October 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We know what we have to do!
The #ANTIFA President and Generation who were also, for all of their faults & failings, our most Progressive President and Generation = Here’s their story from the 1930s to the 1970s. 🇺🇸
October 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The #ANTIFA President and Generation who were also, for all of their faults & failings, our most Progressive President and Generation = Here’s their story from the 1930s to the 1970s. 🇺🇸
The #ANTIFA President and Generation who were also, for all of their faults & failings, our most Progressive President and Generation = Here’s their story from the 1930s to the 1970s. 🇺🇸
October 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The #ANTIFA President and Generation who were also, for all of their faults & failings, our most Progressive President and Generation = Here’s their story from the 1930s to the 1970s. 🇺🇸
“I think patriotism- our patriotism - has never been better defined than by Paine - he hit it off in several places. For instance, where he says - the world is my country to do good is my religion - that is the whole gospel of politics, life.” - Walt Whitman, our great democratic poet 🇺🇸
October 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“I think patriotism- our patriotism - has never been better defined than by Paine - he hit it off in several places. For instance, where he says - the world is my country to do good is my religion - that is the whole gospel of politics, life.” - Walt Whitman, our great democratic poet 🇺🇸
“The creative capacity itself seems to have gone out of American political life . . . What strikes me hardest about all this is the terrible waste of history it involves . . .”
— Max Lerner 1948
— Max Lerner 1948
October 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“The creative capacity itself seems to have gone out of American political life . . . What strikes me hardest about all this is the terrible waste of history it involves . . .”
— Max Lerner 1948
— Max Lerner 1948
Too many of those who prate about saving democracy are really only interested in saving things as they were. Democracy should concern itself also with things as they ought to be. #FDR 1938
October 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Too many of those who prate about saving democracy are really only interested in saving things as they were. Democracy should concern itself also with things as they ought to be. #FDR 1938
It is hilarious- and yet tragic
September 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It is hilarious- and yet tragic
Next year is the 250th bday of the USA. Let’s start remembering & teaching how generations of Americans native-born & newly-arrived rejected the idea of the end of history and fought to realize the Revolutionary promise of freedom, equality, and democracy.
September 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Next year is the 250th bday of the USA. Let’s start remembering & teaching how generations of Americans native-born & newly-arrived rejected the idea of the end of history and fought to realize the Revolutionary promise of freedom, equality, and democracy.
Have you seen this?
September 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Have you seen this?
Get ready for the 250th. Reject both empty patriotism & empty trash talk. Recall how generations of Americans native-born & newly-arrived alike have rejected the idea that the Revolution was over and fought to realize the Revolutionary promise of freedom, equality, democracy. 🇺🇸
September 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Get ready for the 250th. Reject both empty patriotism & empty trash talk. Recall how generations of Americans native-born & newly-arrived alike have rejected the idea that the Revolution was over and fought to realize the Revolutionary promise of freedom, equality, democracy. 🇺🇸
Host Frank Cappello is joined this week on Movies vs Capitalism #MVC by Jon Shelton and yours truly to discuss the John Sayles film Matewan and to dive into labor issues, with insights on workers’ rights and the fight for social democracy.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
September 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Host Frank Cappello is joined this week on Movies vs Capitalism #MVC by Jon Shelton and yours truly to discuss the John Sayles film Matewan and to dive into labor issues, with insights on workers’ rights and the fight for social democracy.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...