The Procedural is Political
Renato Flores argues for a culture shift around meeting procedures that takes into account differing backgrounds to make our organizing spaces more accessible to everyone …
Articles
Give the Platform Legs to Stand: The Case for CB8
Parker McQueeney writes in support of Constitution/Bylaw Amendment 8 (CB8) for the 2021 DSA Convention At this year’s convention, DSA will be debating a political …
The Introduction of Cybernetics in the GDR by Jérôme Segal
Translation and introduction by Alexander Gallus. The reputation and legacy of cybernetics throughout the history of so-called AES/state socialist countries was fraught with controversy. The …
Democratic Representation, Not Bureaucratic Manipulation: Why DSA Needs Single Transferable Voting
Moira Madden and Adam I. Ascione D’Elia make the case for standardizing Single Transferable Voting in DSA to ensure proportional representation and prevent opportunistic manipulations …
The Past is Here: Seeking Perspective by Comparing the Reagan Era to Our Own
Sudip Bhattacharya looks to the Reagan era to understand the rise of the current US right, drawing from interviews with various US historians. Despite the …
The Importance of Henryk Grossman
Ted Reese, author of the upcoming The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Zero Books), argues for the continued relevance of Henryk Grossman’s …
Tribunes of the People
Ben Grove defends the ‘Tribunes of the People’ resolution promoted by the Marxist Unity Slate for the upcoming 2021 DSA convention, arguing that the Socialist …
Addiction Is Not a Crime
Beyond failing at preventing the ills of addiction, the War of Drugs has served as a war on those dispossessed by capitalism. Billy Anania argues …
On the Stalin Question
Parker McQueeney introduces two of Paul Costello’s essays on the topic of Stalin and Stalinism: Stalin and Historical Reality and Stalin and the Problem of …
Democracy and Socialism, the Two Edges of Marxism’s Knife
Gil Schaeffer responds to Ben Grove’s “Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction” and its arguments about the need for a mass party, critiquing Mike Macnair, Ben …
“The Difficult Resurgence of the Balkan Left” by Jean-Arnault Dérens
Translation and Introduction by Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa. The former Yugoslav nations have one of the most storied leftist histories in the world, and …
Race, Class and the Zionist State
Gus Breslauer responds to Angry Workers of the World on the issue of Palestine and Zionism. There is no path “around” Intifada, the working class …
Sectarianism Among Communists in American History
Joshua Morris writes on the phenomena of sectarianism in the early US Communist Movement. He is currently authoring a book “The Many Worlds of American …
The Art of Organizing by Karl Kilbom
Translation and introduction by Tom Anderson. For sake of brevity, certain sections of this handbook have been left out as they are of little interest …