Building the Mass Party: The Merger Formula in the American Context
What will it take to build a mass socialist party in the United States? Rosa Janis argues that socialist think-tanks may be a necessary first …
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On Women As A Class: Materialist Feminism and Mass Struggle
The relationship between gender and capital is complex, but a materialist approach to both requires us to recognize the centrality of proletarian revolution for the …
A Worker on Workers’ Education
Translation and introduction by Rida Vaquas. The original article can be found here. This article was originally written by Franz Förster (a painter) in 1909, …
May 1968: The Birth of Neoliberalism?
The May events in 1968 France are now remembered by some as merely a watershed for the rise of neo-liberalism. Donald Parkinson aims to complicate …
Long Term Failures: A Short History of the CIA and Destabilization of Leftist Governments in Latin America
M. Earl Smith’s extensive research into and historical expose of the CIA’s activity in South America displays a historical truth which is systematically and strenuously …
Why We Still Need Pitchforks: A Critique of the Politics of Nora Belrose
Revolution is outdated and no longer a realistic means to achieve socialism according to Nora Belrose, a DSA member who writes a popular blog. Is …
Capitalism: What it is and How to Abolish It
M.K. Owen provides an analysis of capitalism as a historically specific mode of production and provides a vision towards what an alternative to this system …
What do the Democratic Socialists of America stand for politically?
The typical medium through which political organizations have presented their vision of social change is the political program or platform. Despite lacking an official platform, …
Double Agent in Detroit: Anti-Communism at the Local Level
Looking at anti-communism before the McCarthyist era at the local level, Joshua Morris dissects the career of an industrial double-agent William Gernaey. We publish this …
Against Think-Tank Socialism: a Review of ‘Inventing the Future’
Jean Allen reviews Srnicek & Williams’ ‘Inventing the Future’, which calls for an intellectual counter-hegemony to neoliberalism. Does this proposal for counter-hegemonic institutions really put …
Memo on DSA Electoral Campaigns
DSA member Peter Moody looks over DSA’s electoral strategy and its current application, specifically in the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign, arguing that the task of making …
How Empires Die
Rosa Janis argues for a theory of crisis and social decay that uses elements of Marx’s Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall as …
Insurrection and Defeat in Bavaria, 1918–19 (Part 2)
Alexander Gallus concludes his saga on the Bavarian Soviet Republic and tries to draw political lessons from its failures. The leader of the Bavarian November …
From Workers’ Party to Workers’ Republic
Donald Parkinson takes a look at the history of the First, Second and Third Internationals, arguing for an approach to party-building and political strategy that …