Toward a Democratic Left Author:Michael Harrington Michael Harrington identifies major social deformities dynamically evolving within the American system, and demands that they be radically comprehended, radically analyzed, and attacked by a radical program of action. — "Our social irrationality," Harrington contend, "is not a product of the presidential psyche nor of faulty logic but a coherent,... more » consitent feature of our social structure. There are powerful, organized, and, I am sure, incere forces committed to the maintenance of the injustice chronicled by the Government. They are not the bloated Wall Street plutocracy of Leftist myth, and that is why it is all the more difficult, and all the more imperative, to recognize them."« less