Dr. M.S. Malaszczyk
ContributorDr. M.S. Malaszczyk is a DSA member and a retired Advanced Placement public school teacher in the Babylon UFSD [Babylon, NY]. Holding an earned Doctorate in Modern World History, he is also currently an adjunct professor at Nassau Community College [Garden City, NY] and Southern New Hampshire University.
Opinion
February 16, 2026
Devout Catholic and Democratic Socialist: Not Oxymorons
For a Ukranian-American cradle Catholic, my journey toward democratic socialism was a process of distilling the ethical core of the “Social Gospel” from the traumatic political history of Eastern Europe that I learned sitting at my parents’ knees. Having taught Modern World History for 32 years, I spent over three decades parsing the distinction between the authoritarian