The Washington Post, August 29th, 1989
When The Post printed its obituary about Michael Harrington {Aug. 2}, it called him everything that he would have liked: activist, social reformer, author and teacher. But The Post didn't identify him the way he most wanted to be remembered: as a democratic socialist leader. I knew him since my earliest political involvement. He was an anti-sectarian in a small, but intellectually challenging socialist sect. He agreed with the politics of the sect, but his style was decidedly different-American, we used to say. Thirty years ago, when that group merged with the Socialist Party, Mr. Harrington's...
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