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.”
They included freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Roosevelt laid out these four freedoms in his 1941 State of the Union address. 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. 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. state and federal prisons grew from 188,000 to 1.5 million, with the vast majority of them poor and people of color. Over the five decades after Raskin’s testimony, the number of inmates in U.S. And as for his fears about the country becoming a garrison, Raskin wasn’t far off. 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. 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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