Mark Satin
American political theorist, author, and newsletter publisher · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1946 · age 79
Mark Ivor Satin is an American political theorist, writer, 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.
Mark Satin is read about 22 times a day, in 8 languages.
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![The "sunny yellow"[25] street door to Satin's office on busy Spadina Avenue in Toronto, August 1967. (Photo by John F. Phillips.)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Draft_dodger_counseling_office.jpg/1280px-Draft_dodger_counseling_office.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
The "sunny yellow"[25] street door to Satin's office on busy Spadina Avenue in Toronto, August 1967. (Photo by John F. Phillips.)![Satin (far left) counseling draft-age Americans in Toronto, August 1967. Until the Manual was published, counseling sessions could take hours.[15] (Photo by Laura Jones.)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Draft_dodgers_being_counseled_1967.jpg/1280px-Draft_dodgers_being_counseled_1967.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Satin (far left) counseling draft-age Americans in Toronto, August 1967. Until the Manual was published, counseling sessions could take hours.[15] (Photo by Laura Jones.)
Satin working on his books Confessions of a Young Exile and New Age Politics in 1975![Carl Rogers (1902-1987), whose ideas about human potential helped shape New Age Politics.[109] He later joined Satin's New Options advisory board.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Carl_Ransom_Rogers.jpg/500px-Carl_Ransom_Rogers.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Carl Rogers (1902-1987), whose ideas about human potential helped shape New Age Politics.[109] He later joined Satin's New Options advisory board.![Satin at the start of his "networking" tour, 1978.[138] (Photo by Erich Hoyt.)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Mark_Satin_in_1978.jpg/1280px-Mark_Satin_in_1978.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Satin at the start of his "networking" tour, 1978.[138] (Photo by Erich Hoyt.)
Governing council of the New World Alliance meets at a lodge in upstate New York, 1980.![Seminal thinker Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), Satin's hero in the early 1960s,[157][158] became an advisor to New Options.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Jane_Jacobs_2004.png/500px-Jane_Jacobs_2004.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Seminal thinker Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), Satin's hero in the early 1960s,[157][158] became an advisor to New Options.About this person
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".
