{"id":27666,"date":"2019-06-25T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27666"},"modified":"2019-06-25T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:31:14","slug":"john-deweys-experiments-in-democratic-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/06\/25\/john-deweys-experiments-in-democratic-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dewey\u2019s Experiments in Democratic Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jacobin Magazine <\/em>has the very interesting article <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2018\/01\/john-dewey-democratic-socialism-liberalism\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">John Dewey\u2019s Experiments in Democratic Socialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile the Vermont product became one of the twentieth century\u2019s most well-known philosophers, widely considered the philosopher of American democracy itself, his idiosyncratic thought earned him enemies across the political spectrum. The Right saw him as a Communist, the Communist Party saw him as a philosopher of reaction. As for Dewey, the only \u201cism\u201d he could attach his name to was \u201cexperimentalism.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been using the term &#8220;what works ism&#8221; to describe my philosophy.  Dewey&#8217;s term is easier to pronounce, but mine has a different set of nuances than Dewey&#8217;s.  I actually like both sets of nuances.<\/p>\n<p>There is much more to this article than the little excerpt I chose above.  It is interesting to think about his philosophy and what Richard Wolff describes at his web site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracyatwork.info\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy At Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacobin Magazine has the very interesting article John Dewey\u2019s Experiments in Democratic Socialism. While the Vermont product became one of the twentieth century\u2019s most well-known philosophers, widely considered the philosopher of American democracy itself, his idiosyncratic thought earned him enemies across the political spectrum. The Right saw him as a Communist, the Communist Party saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27667,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666\/revisions\/27667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}