Democratic Socialism in the USA: History, Politics, Religion, and ...
Democratic Socialism in the USA: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory. The USA, despite its history of slavery, conqueror-extermination, and capitalism, also has a history of extraordinary movements for social justice. The recent surge of support for socialism—while global inequality widens, the planet warms, and the wealthy continue to ...
Marxism and Democracy - Socialist Forum - dsausa.org
Marxism and Democracy. Democratic demands are the only way the people can rule. They are, more than ever before, the essential condition of socialism. 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 ...
Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution - Socialist Forum - dsausa.org
1. Successful socialist revolution, meaning the creation of a society that eliminates differential ownership and control of economic resources and instead permits democratic popular control of the economy, has happened nowhere on a large scale or a “permanent” (“post-capitalist”) basis. Whether in Russia, China, Cuba, or elsewhere, the ...
The Struggle for Democracy and Socialism in Latin America
As members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), we stand with the popular, democratic, and socialist movements in Latin America as they fight against rightwing movements, parties, and governments. We also stand against any attempts by the U.S. or other governments to intervene in Latin America to overthrow left-leaning governments or ...
Working for Reforms While Advancing Toward Socialism
A “socialism” that allows market forces to play the dominant role in economic decision-making, rather than a process of democratic participatory planning, will generate many of the oppressive features of capitalism while producing a wealthy class that will eventually move to overthrow “market socialism.”
Democratic Socialism is Back in Milwaukee - Socialist Forum
Democratic Socialism is Back in Milwaukee. Two Milwaukee DSA members discuss electoral campaigns, sewer socialism, and next steps for their chapter. by Alex Brower and Arthur Edmund - Spring 2021. Last April, Milwaukee DSA ran three candidates for public office in their city. Unfortunately, none of the three candidates won their elections.
Democratic Socialism in New York City: Results and Prospects
Democratic Socialism in New York City: Results and Prospects. Reflections from a NYC-DSA member on recent successes and shortcomings, as well as prospects for future growth. During a chapter wide debrief immediately after the New York State Assembly races this election cycle, a comrade described our electoral project as a small sailboat with a ...
Building Socialism from Below: Popular Power and the State
A Greek sociologist who taught in France from 1968 until his suicide in 1979, Poulantzas wrote on class, fascism, and the state. But the work of his that bears most directly on the question of U.S. socialist strategy today is “Towards a Democratic Socialism,” a remarkable essay published one year before his death.
Toward Disarmament: Gun Politics and the Left - Socialist Forum
The gun industry needs to be targeted and opposed as a capitalist death machine. by Alex Holmstrom-Smith - Summer 2022. When I told my mother, a lifelong socialist, that I was writing an article on guns, she immediately related a story from her past. In 1968, she was collecting signatures to get Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther Party member ...
Strong and Stable Socialism for a Climate-Changed World
The challenge of climate change demands nothing less than the creation of new forms of democratic socialist internationalism. Socialism Against Sprawl. by Antonia Stolark. A socialist approach to ending sprawl must rely on two core concepts: …