from Syracuse.com
July 20, 2009

J. David Edelstein, 90, of Syracuse, passed away peacefully July 20, 2009, at Crouse Hospital, surrounded by his wife and children. Dave was a professor of sociology at Syracuse University and Northern Illinois University. He was an ardent socialist all his life and was affiliated with the Independent Social League, Solidarity and the Socialist Party USA. His study of voting in unions culminated in a book that was co-authored with Malcolm Warner, Comparative Union Democracy: Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions. His comparison of social democracy in some European countries with the tenets of democratic socialism has particular relevance to today's economy. Dave is survived by his wife, Ruth R. Greenberg-Edelstein; children, Daniel and June; grandchildren Susan and Jacob "Jake"; a niece; and two nephews. He will be greatly missed.

Read David Edelstein's pamphlet:
Social Democracy Versus Revolutionary Democratic Socialism