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Raskin died on December 24, 2017,
at age 83 — just as the current
president of the United States was
about to make nuclear threats via
Twitter. And as for his fears about
the country becoming a garrison,
Raskin wasn’t far off. Over the five
decades after Raskin’s testimony,
the number of inmates in U.S. state
and federal prisons grew from
188,000 to 1.5 million , with the vast
majority of them poor and people of
color.
While progressive activists have
tended to treat these issues
separately, Raskin consistently
connected the dots between
America’s military adventures
overseas and economic and racial
injustice at home.
In a 2008 book with Robert Spero,
for example, he used President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “four
essential human freedoms” as a
clever frame for exposing the extent
to which the national security state
had accelerated poverty and
inequality while undermining other
basic rights.
Roosevelt laid out these four
freedoms in his 1941 State of the
Union address. They included
freedom of speech, freedom of
religion, freedom from want, and
freedom from fear. FDR’s notion of
“freedom from want” built on this
famous line from his 1937 inaugural
address: “The test of our progress is
not whether we add more to the
abundance of those who have much;
it is whether we provide enough for
those who have too little.”
Institute for Policy Studies Co-
founder Marcus Raskin will be
remembered, among many other
noteworthy achievements, for
coining the term “national security
state.” In congressional testimony
in 1967, he used the phrase to
describe the complex web of war
institutions he feared would drive
continuous conflict abroad while
turning the United States into a
“garrison and launching pad for
nuclear war.”
Raskin died on December 24, 2017,
at age 83 — just as the current
president of the United States was
about to make nuclear threats via
Twitter. And as for his fears about
the country becoming a garrison,
Raskin wasn’t far off. Over the five
decades after Raskin’s testimony,
the number of inmates in U.S. state
and federal prisons grew from
188,000 to 1.5 million , with the vast
majority of them poor and people of
color.
While progressive activists have
tended to treat these issues
separately, Raskin consistently
connected the dots between
America’s military adventures
overseas and economic and racial
injustice at home.
In a 2008 book with Robert Spero,
for example, he used President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “four
essential human freedoms” as a
clever frame for exposing the extent
to which the national security state
had accelerated poverty and
inequality while undermining other
basic rights.
Roosevelt laid out these four
freedoms in his 1941 State of the
Union address. They included
freedom of speech, freedom of
religion, freedom from want, and
freedom from fear. FDR’s notion of
“freedom from want” built on this
famous line from his 1937 inaugural
address: “The test of our progress is
not whether we add more to the
abundance of those who have much;
it is whether we provide enough for
those who have too little.”
Institute for Policy Studies Co-
founder Marcus Raskin will be
remembered, among many other
noteworthy achievements, for
coining the term “national security
state.” In congressional testimony
in 1967, he used the phrase to
describe the complex web of war
institutions he feared would drive
continuous conflict abroad while
turning the United States into a
“garrison and launching pad for
nuclear war.”
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