Back in the seventies I spoke with Michael Harrington, who had just given a speech at the University of Illinois, and who would go on to found the Democratic Socialists of America in 1982. I agreed with him on nothing, except his being appalled by the Communist nations, including Cuba, of the day. He started as a Catholic, but ended up as an atheist. He knows better now, having died in 1989, and my guess is that he mourns what his movement has morphed into.
