Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution - Socialist Forum - dsausa.org
Put differently, the twentieth-century strategy of “Marxist” revolutionaries to seize the state (whether electorally or in an insurrection) and then carry out a social revolution—by means of …
Reclaiming Power: Mutual Aid in the United States
In the 1960s, the Black Panther Party (BPP) created the most famous examples of mutual aid projects in the United States. BPP leaders were influenced by the communist revolution in …
The Meaning of Discipline and DSA's Relationship to Elected ...
These are the only officials who DSA can have confidence in propelling the cause of true socialist revolution. Officials within the current state will always be compromised – they must be in …
The Revolution Must Be Trauma-Informed - Socialist Forum
In our talk of revolution, political or otherwise, much of the discussion tends to center around the economic effects on individuals and communities. Spending the past six years working in the …
The Rediscovery of Democratic Republicanism - Socialist Forum
Above all, the new Constitution was necessary to confine the popular, democratic spirit present since the American Revolution. Martin Luther King made a similar point in 1967, explaining …
Political Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
For the foreseeable future, the most realistic path to achieving a substantive political revolution in the U.S. is to unite and organize key elements of the social groups that were mobilized by …
Neither Washington Nor Beijing: Socialists, Inter-Imperial Rivalry, …
The movement also erupted for other reasons, very similar to those that triggered Occupy and many other youth-led social movements around the world—massive social inequality, injustice, …
The New Deal is Not Enough - Socialist Forum
The New Deal and postwar orders can be defined as “social imperialism,” that is, a political economy that can offer social reforms only because it is an imperial power. U.S. domination of …
Meanderings of Post-Industrial Social Democracy
After the great expansion of welfare states in the 1960s, many social democrats asked whether the welfare state was the final goal of the social democratic labor movement. In several social …
Marxism and Democracy - Socialist Forum - dsausa.org
DSA founder Michael Harrington wrote widely on the relationship between democracy and socialism. In this essay, Harrington provides a brief survey of Marx’s and Engels’s approaches …