Byline: Charles A. Radin Boston Globe
Bright yellow leaflets pasted to walls and bulletin boards around Harvard Square put starkly the question troubling sympathizers of the left in America.
"Has Capitalism Won?" they blare, addressing a common perception.
"In the minds of most Western politicians, academics and media pundits, 1989 was about the death of socialism as a political ideology," according to the authors, the International Socialist Organization. "The crisis in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union signified the ultimate victory for capitalism."
Leaders and thinkers on the left, and many others with socialist sympathies, say it isn't so.
Rather, they argue, the American left - defined, in this context, as the segment of people who believe that society's responsibility for its members is more important than the ideals of free-market economics - is gathering its forces. The collapse of totalitarian communism in the East, they assert, will prove either irrelevant or beneficial to the effort.
Many leftists and …
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