New Foundations
     Visions for Democratic Socialism

Produced by Jim Dessauer and Tim Brachocki

• Presents the ideas of democratic socialism in the context of historical struggles for social change.
  
  

• Presents democratic socialism as an alternative to 20th century capitalism and communism
  
  

• Includes historical footage and a wide range of democratic socialists from diverse movements and organizations-- including elected officials, prominent spokespersons and working people
  
  

• Analyzes the relations between structural problems such as environmental degradation, poverty, unemployment and militarism
  
  

• Discusses the connections between systems of domination based on class, race, gender and sexual preference.
  
  

• Describes democratic socialist ideas such as support for human rights, extending democracy to all spheres of social life and transforming the economy, culture and politics from below
  

FROM NEW FOUNDATIONS:

"...The official ideology is that the magic of the market can solve all problems.  Well, look at the health care system.  There we've had the magic of the market for decades and decades, and we have what even big business as well as labor as well as consumer groups acknowledge is a total mess.  What we get out of it is very fine care-- if you can afford it."
---Barbara Ehrenreich
   Author and Honorary Co-Chair, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

"I don't think we can do anything unless we work simultaneously on many different levels.  You have to change the system, but you have to change it from below.  It is very important to me, because I don't know any other way to live without trying to basically fight for your life."
---Stacey Blatt
   Youth Activities Worker

"...Lucid exposition of the ideas of socialism, New Foundations is a wonderful educational tool, very much needed, because there has been so much misunderstanding of what socialism is.  I hope it will be used widely in classrooms all over the United States."
---Howard Zin
   Author of A People's History of the United States

"I loved seeing a film that locates Socialism both in America's past and in its future, and I loved the music from different eras.  Thanks for making a lively film that shows Socialism as a way of living, not an 'ism'."
---Barbara Garson
   Author of The Electronic Sweatshop and the play Mac Bird!

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