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...goals of socialism can withstand disillusionment where the activism of the '60s failed, Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, told a group of about 30 people at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Democratic Socialists Organizing committee (DSOC) last night...
...Harvard DSOC, originally formed by students working in the 1972 presidential campaign of Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), has participated in the J.P. Stevens boycott, and in political campaigns for Saundra Graham and Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.), Rachel Dewey '78 president of DSOC's Harvard branch, said yesterday...
Dewey said Harvard DSOC, which now numbers fewer than 20 people, will try to organize students in support of a Democratic Socialist candidate for city council--David Sullivan--and will continue its work of the Stevens boycott...
Harrington feels that the best thing that socialists can do in the immediate future is support the Democratic candidate against Ford or Reagan. "There's a lot of support in DSOC for Bayh, Udall and Harris," he says. I ask him how far to the middle of the spectrum DSOC is ready to go...would it support Humphrey? "I can't speak for the Committee as a whole, but I personally would find Humphrey very acceptable. Hubert's always been a favorite of mine." "And how about Jackson?" Harrington doesn't flinch: "We'll cross that bridge when we come...
...ALLYING DSOC with the Democratic Party and the trade unions, Harrington has severely hampered his flexibility; he can't capitalize on those opportunities, such as Lordstown, which offer the best hope of realizing the workers' autonomy in the factories for fear of alienating his friends in the union leadership. Such an action would pose a major threat to the union bosses whose main responsibility is the enforcement of the contract in return for certain material concessions from management...