For me the most influential was Matt Bruenig. He’s extremely knowledgeable about Nordic model socialism as well as the building of a good welfare state.
Specifically, his explanations about how the way people frame welfare program is incorrect as it’s not a vehicle of Socialism itself. As a TL;DR, people incorrectly assume it’s about vertical redistribution (high income to low income), where the correct way to frame it is horizontal redistribution (e.g. a single lawyer that only has to take care of themselves and a lawyer who has 3 kids, a disabled sibling, and two elderly parents that they have to take care of should be able to live similar lifestyles).
He’s also a labor lawyer and knows basically everything there is to know about the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), so it’s helped reframe a lot of modern issues for me into a labor mindset.
He has a lot of stuff posted on The People’s Policy Project as well as his personal website Matt Bruenig Dot Com. He also does a Podcast with his wife, Liz who is a great writer with the Atlantic and another lefty, where they end up talking about a lot of this stuff. The podcast feed also has in it a Socialism Series where Matt goes through the “canon” of socialist thought like Charles Fourier, Karl Marx, John Francis Bray, etc.
For me the most influential was Matt Bruenig. He’s extremely knowledgeable about Nordic model socialism as well as the building of a good welfare state.
Specifically, his explanations about how the way people frame welfare program is incorrect as it’s not a vehicle of Socialism itself. As a TL;DR, people incorrectly assume it’s about vertical redistribution (high income to low income), where the correct way to frame it is horizontal redistribution (e.g. a single lawyer that only has to take care of themselves and a lawyer who has 3 kids, a disabled sibling, and two elderly parents that they have to take care of should be able to live similar lifestyles).
He’s also a labor lawyer and knows basically everything there is to know about the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), so it’s helped reframe a lot of modern issues for me into a labor mindset.
He has a lot of stuff posted on The People’s Policy Project as well as his personal website Matt Bruenig Dot Com. He also does a Podcast with his wife, Liz who is a great writer with the Atlantic and another lefty, where they end up talking about a lot of this stuff. The podcast feed also has in it a Socialism Series where Matt goes through the “canon” of socialist thought like Charles Fourier, Karl Marx, John Francis Bray, etc.