Ideas & Debates
Engels and Women’s Oppression
What does Engels say about the root of women's oppression? Is there validity to his argument today?
Ariane Diaz
April 23, 2018DSA: It’s Time to Abandon the Democrats
Two NY DSA members make the case for ending all DSA endorsements of the Democratic Party.
Zack K
April 20, 2018The Politics of Rupture
In political theory and philosophy, especially leftist theory and philosophy, one not infrequently encounters the notion of ‘rupture.’ But what does a ‘rupture’ refer to, and why does it matter?
Ben Rosenfield
April 20, 2018Menshevism: The Girondins of 1917
Menshevism was committed to gradualism and opposed to the “historical impatience” of a socialist revolution.
Doug Enaa Greene
April 18, 2018The Moscow Thermidor: Stalinist Degeneration and the Lessons for Today
What was Stalinism? Why did it occur and will it be the fate of all socialist revolutions?
Edson Urbano
April 16, 2018Who are the Trotskyists of Babylon Berlin?
Someone must have been telling lies about Leon Trotsky, as the German TV series Babylon Berlin only features ahistorical pseudo-Trotskyists.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 9, 2018Denver DSA Makes Democratic Party More Palatable
Members of the DSA in Denver introduced an “anti-capitalist plank” into the local Democratic Party constitution. Is this really the way forward to build socialism?
Juan Cruz Ferre
April 2, 2018Day Zero is Already Here for Cape Town’s Poor
Cape Town, South Africa is experiencing a drought so severe that the local government has announced the city’s water taps will be shut off indefinitely in 2019. However, for the city’s Black and poor residents, the water emergency has been a reality for years.
Robert Belano
March 30, 2018Memories of the Future
The Russian revolution is not old and dead history; socialists can learn central lessons from the working class revolution 100 years ago. What are these lessons?
Christian Castillo
March 28, 2018No, Europe is not Socialist
The story of a Texas teenager who moves to Berlin looking for a socialist paradise – and discovers that socialism means fighting to break the power of the capitalists.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 27, 2018