Cleveland DSA & “The Groups”

The post explains three competing strategies within Cleveland DSA for relating to outside activist and political groups: building broad alliances with liberals (“Popular Front”), cooperating primarily with other socialist organizations (“United Socialist Front”), or concentrating on building DSA into a single, democratic mass socialist party.

You Aren’t Special – and Neither am I

Democracy is more than existing under a political system, it is about being able to have a true, meaningful relationship to the way that a person interacts with and shapes their own political system

Abolishing Gender Essentialism

A headline reading "Abolish Gender Essentialism" above a graphic of many hands reaching to grab various symbols representing different presentations of gender.

Historical performances of gender are not the same throughout time and culture – in other words they are not essential to a person, they are something which can be undermined, and change throughout a person’s life.

Who Does the Post Office Serve?

Where a miraculous act should edify and uplift, this one invalidates the self, turns a citizen into an occupant and a neighbor into a mark

Happy Birthday, America?

The people greet the American Empire’s 250th anniversary with a collective shrug. Let’s take a short swim in the algae-green waters of the Reflecting Pool.

Capacity and Militancy

A man sitting on a bench with a thought balloon coming out of his head.

Our work requires militancy; not in the sense of posturing or burnout, but in the sense of disciplined, collective commitment to carrying out democratically decided work. To be militant socialists, we must be dedicated and principled in our organizing.

I Love “I Love Boosters”

Even on a good day Hollywood would not allow both sides of the coin to be shown on screen at the same time, as Capital knows what it can allow anti-capitalist art to show, as well as what it can’t.