Michael Harrington’s ideas continue to have wide influence, but his American variant of reformism is a political dead end.
Libertarian socialism is rooted in petty-bourgeois idealism and has nothing in common with a materialist understanding of the world and the working class.
In another contribution to the ongoing debate on the “party question,” we reply to comradely feedback submitted by a DSA reading group on key questions of revolutionary strategy.
Every major contradiction in US politics today flows from the fact that the working class has no party of its own. That’s why the DSA debate over the “party question” is here to stay.
We republish a resolution presented in the Phoenix DSA chapter. Written by Marxist members of DSA who support our ideas, it argues for a clean break from the Democrats and for independent class politics.
How did Sanders, who struck terror into the DNC leadership, end up reframing his candidacy as a stratagem to “realign” the Democratic Party?
Socialists are now swimming with the stream of events, as the explosive growth of mass movements and the Democratic Socialists of America have shown. But where do we go from here?
