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Social Feelings and the Morality of Socialism

Milton Fisk, in Toward a New Socialism, edited by A. Anton and R. Schmitt (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007), 117-144. Thinking about morality is a neglected part of envisioning a socialist movement and indeed a socialist future. To remedy this neglect, … Continue reading

Social Feeling and the Morality of Socialism

Milton Fisk, in A New Socialism, edited by A. Anton and R. Schmitt (Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2007), 117-144. Thinking about morality is a neglected part of envisioning a socialist movement and indeed a socialist future. To remedy this neglect, … Continue reading

The Roots of Poverty

Milton Fisk, New Politics 10, 2 (Winter, 2005): 71-81. It is common to try to understand poverty by defining it through income. This has the effect of limiting our ability to deal with poverty at a practical level. We respond … Continue reading

The Presidential Candidates’ Health Plans: Why We Deserve Better!

Milton Fisk, Against The Current 137 (Nov 2008): 7-9. The Frontline TV film, Sick around the World, showed Americans how far we are from having a sensible healthcare system. The film first appeared during the presidential primary campaign in which … Continue reading

Multiculturalism and Neoliberalism

Milton Fisk, Praxis Filosofica, 21 (2005): 21-28. In this discussion, my aim is to raise critical practical and theoretical questions as regards multiculturalism. I wish to end with a sketch of a program for a viable multiculturalism. The issues in … Continue reading

Unaffordable Health Insurance and Presidential Politics

Milton Fisk, Against the Current 111 (July-Aug 2004): 30-33. The Permanent Crisis. Uninterrupted crisis has plagued American health care since 1981. It began with Ronald Regan, whose tax cuts led to cuts in Medicaid as well as more stringent eligibility … Continue reading

Living-wage ordinance opponents ignore the harm of poverty wages

Milton Fisk, Bloomington Herald-Times, 4-20-04. This guest column was written by Milton Fisk of the Bloomington Living Wage Coalition. There is a lot worth noting in recent Herald-Times editorials, letters and articles on the living wage. They fail, though, to … Continue reading

Global Public Goods and Self-Interest

Milton Fisk in Sui Generis: Essays Presented to Richard Thomas Hull, edited by E.D. Boepple (Bloomington IN:Author House, 2005), 13-22. 1  The neoliberal context Public goods represent an alternative to the race to the bottom under the banner of market … Continue reading

Human Rights and Living Wages

Milton Fisk, in Guantanamo Bay and the Judicial-Moral Treatment of the Other, edited by C. Butler (W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2007), 146-160. One has to dig deeply into current United Nations declarations and reports on human rights before … Continue reading

Why Wars for High Principles Are Just as Bad as the Rest

Milton Fisk, Against the Current 107 (Nov-Dec, 2003):20-25. A surprising number of American doves became hawks under the barrage of propaganda leading to the second US war against Iraq. Signs of their change began to appear four years earlier during … Continue reading

Derechos humanos, metas sociales, y universalidad

Milton Fisk, from his Bienes publicos y justicia radical: Una moralidad politica para la resistencia solidaria (Cali, Colombia: Programa editorial Universidad de Valle, 2004), 71-89. Nos hemos acostumbrado a pensar los derechos humanos de una manera histórica. De esta manera … Continue reading