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Mark Satin

American political theorist, author, and newsletter publisher

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1946

Profession: author, journalist, political theorist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Mark Satin

  • Mark Ivor Satin (born November 16, 1946) is an American political theorist, author, and newsletter publisher.
  • He is best known for contributing to the development and dissemination of three political perspectives – neopacifism in the 1960s, New Age politics in the 1970s and 1980s, and radical centrism in the 1990s and 2000s.
  • Satin's work is sometimes seen as building toward a new political ideology, and then it is often labeled "transformational", "post-liberal", or "post-Marxist".
  • One historian calls Satin's writing "post-hip".After emigrating to Canada at the age of 20 to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, Satin co-founded the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme, which helped bring American war resisters to Canada.
  • He also wrote the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada (1968), which sold nearly 100,000 copies.
  • After a period that author Marilyn Ferguson describes as Satin's "anti-ambition experiment", Satin wrote New Age Politics (1978), which identifies an emergent "third force" in North America pursuing such goals as simple living, decentralism, and global responsibility.
  • Satin spread his ideas by co-founding an American political organization, the New World Alliance, and by publishing an international political newsletter, New Options.
  • He also co-drafted the foundational statement of the U.S.
  • Green Party, "Ten Key Values". Following a period of political disillusion, spent mainly in law school and practicing business law, Satin launched a new political newsletter and wrote a book, Radical Middle (2004).
  • Both projects criticized political partisanship and sought to promote mutual learning and innovative policy syntheses across social and cultural divides.
  • In an interview, Satin contrasts the old radical slogan "Dare to struggle, dare to win" with his radical-middle version, "Dare to synthesize, dare to take it all in".Satin has been described as "colorful" and "intense", and all his initiatives have been controversial.
  • Bringing war resisters to Canada was opposed by many in the anti-Vietnam War movement.
  • New Age Politics was not welcomed by many on the traditional left or right, and Radical Middle dismayed an even broader segment of the American political community.
  • Even Satin's personal life has generated controversy.

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