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The Long Crisis of Democracy

Marvin González, June 10, 2022

The following is an excerpted version of a piece authored by NYC-DSA members Marvin González and M. Fleischman in response to Warren Montag's 2021 article "The Necessity of Taking Back the Streets: Notes on DSA." Using Montag as a starting point, González and Fleischman take on a variety of topics including questions of authoritarianism, the proper method for conjunctural analysis, examples of such analysis applied to the history of political systems that currently circumscribe political action, how those systems are instantiated and managed, especially in the face of crisis throughout different epochs, and the current political situation within the right, the liberal center, and the left. These excerpts are specifically focused on a history of the political conjuncture in the US from its founding until the late 1960s and early 70s. Read Article.