Pamphlets Rage and Hope This text was written as part of the LSC Pamphlet Program. It reflects only the opinions of the author(s) and not the consensus of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. Trigger warnings: discussions of...
Pamphlets I became an anarchist while working for the Nevada State Democratic Party. This text was written as part of the LSC Pamphlet Program. It reflects only the opinions of the author(s) and not the consensus of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. by Jesse M. There...
Pamphlets A Report on Seattle DSA’s 2024 Democracy Budget This text was written as part of the LSC Pamphlet Program. It reflects only the opinions of the author and not the consensus of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. by Klondike, Seattle DSA IntroductionI'm...
Pamphlets There is no such thing as a pro-labor conservative. This text was written as part of the LSC Pamphlet Program. It reflects only the opinions of the author(s) and not the consensus of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. by Jesse M. Like...
Gender Anarchy, Transfemmes, and the State! Oh my! Transfeminism occupies an increasingly prominent position within socialist and queer spaces. With the ever-increasing restrictions on bodily autonomy and persecution of queer people, the question of how to liberate gender non-conforming folks is ever-important....
Pamphlets Democratic Socialists of America and the 2024 Elections — Forging a New Path Freedom lives in the lungs. Take a deep breath…. Exhale. Four years ago, a new virus making its way across the world had just entered the United States. The results on a populace...
Pamphlets LSC does not belong to DSA: We Caucus Wherever We Are It is important for those on the left, and especially those on the outside looking in, to know that the Libertarian Socialist Caucus does not belong to the Democratic Socialists of America and never has....
Pamphlets What I Want from an Organization The world is dying, or rather, being killed. Those that are responsible are showing no real signs of changing....
Pamphlets What We Need The first week of August—the week of the DSA National Convention—laid bare some of the structural issues faced by the DSA....
Pamphlets Horizontalism If you’ve been following debates in DSA since 2016, then you’ve probably seen “horizontalism” used to describe, and sometimes criticize, the views of a tendency in our organization that has come together as the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. But what is horizontalism?...
Pamphlets Strike for Black Lives My friends, remember the power we have in the strike. Consider it, discuss it, and if the desire for justice and life for Black people (and all people of color) so moves you, strike to attain it....
Pamphlets Police Brutality is a Symptom of a Bigger Problem What we need is prescribed by Mandela and Tutu: Truth and Reconciliation for the system. Restorative Justice to tear down the old and build something new and better....
Police A Quick Look at Police, Property, and Privilege To examine the role police play in modern society, one must understand the economic motives fundamental to their existence....
Pamphlets Mutual Aid vs Charity Ordinary working people are not easily excited by ideological rhetoric. They are much more likely to remember people who made sure that they had food on the table and a roof over their heads....
Pamphlets Dual Power and Prefigurative Politics An Annotated Bibliography of Key Texts For Reading-Inclined LibSocs...
Pamphlets Mutual Aid LibGuide Mutual aid has a long, obfuscated history in the United States, as it has largely been the province of labor radicals and immigrant communities trying to survive the exploitation of capitalism. The last five years have witnessed a resurgence of unabashed Left political action...
Pamphlets Primitivism, Neoliberalism, and the End of History In recent years, many content creators have released a slew of books, podcasts, and other forms of media to tell us of the ways in which modern civilization corrupts our character and pulls us from our true being, the way of life we were “meant to live.”...
DSA Mutual Aid: A Moral and Strategic Necessity Rather than adopting the traditional model of campaigning, which focuses on the short term goal of gaining a vote, we pursue much broader goals, ones that look beyond the performative proceduralism of liberal democracy and to a more radically liberatory end....
Pamphlets Synthesizing Visions of Power & Autonomy: Party & Organization for DSA & the U.S. Left As the U.S. left rebuilds after decades of prophetic critique—and terminal marginality and sectarianism—we confront a question of organizational structure in an environment unlike any before....
Pamphlets Why We Should Democratize Everything What do you think of when you hear the word ‘democracy’? Many immediately think of the process of voting......
Pamphlets Christ, COVID, and Capital Christian history and theology anticipated in important ways those grassroots citizens coalitions that operate outside conventional political parties and state structures....
Pamphlets It's Propaganda Time PDF This text was written as part of the LSC Pamphlet Program. It reflects only the opinions of the author(s) and not the consensus of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. by Ben C...
Beyond Progressive Politics Beyond Progressive Politics "Electoral change... has the potential to improve the lives of millions. However... It alone can never fully transform society... Building a truly democratic economy and society means creating institutions managed by workers and communities directly..."...
Pamphlets Seeking Community in the Face of Isolation As socialists, we try to concern ourselves with other people, especially those that are most oppressed and neglected under our evil regime. The COVID19 pandemic presents lethal challenges beyond the virus’s own deadly threat......
Pamphlets Inclusive Socialism A socialist movement that attempts to view the upheavals of humanity solely through the lens of class analysis is forced to sweep a great many pressing realities under the rug....
