Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution - Socialist Forum - dsausa.org
There is a glaring flaw in Marx’s conceptualization (expressed, for example, in the famous Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy) according to which “an era of social revolution” begins when the dominant mode of production starts to fetter the use and development of the productive forces. The flaw is simply that ...
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 order to hold power. In the hands of working class, democratically elected representatives, we hold the hopes of socialist revolution.
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 nonprofit social services sector, however, has shown me another prominent and important, though less discussed factor: the loss of sense of self and ...
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 China, particularly the communist party’s “serve the people” programs. In response to malnutrition in Black communities, the BPP started serving free breakfast ...
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 that the South’s stranglehold of the Senate kept the U.S. from achieving the enviable social-democratic policies of the Nordic countries.
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 Sanders’ 2016 campaign, the disastrous Trump administration, and a …
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, corruption, and precarious economic prospects. As a paradise of free market capitalism, Hong Kong’s inequality has skyrocketed in the last half century.
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 half the world—economic, political, and military—provided the basis for the “American dream” of a steady job, a home of one’s own in the suburbs ...
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 democracies, in particular the Nordics, the Austrian, and the French, the answer was No. Social democracy started as a movement for socialism.
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 to democracy and socialist political strategy, Marx’s theories of capitalism, and the question of Stalinism – or, as Harrington and others often described it, …