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....
Pamphlets Convention Story I was a delegate to the 2019 DSA National Convention. A lot has been and will be said about the political implications of the decisions we made, about the actions on the floor by the various caucuses, factions and shadowy cabals, but I’m interested in a different story....
Abbreviated List of LSC Endorsements This list is all of the questions on the convention schedule that we have endorsed as a caucus. There may be other great proposals that simply did not make it into the process—...
Caucus Statement Let's Get Democratized: Statement on the 2019 DSA Convention Introduction Last fall we, the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, drafted and committed to a platform for the DSA National Convention of 2019 that would, in our words, “Democratize...
Caucus Statement Call to the NPC for a Democratic Election The National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America, where we will be deciding on the membership’s proposals and electing the new National Political Committee is just a few weeks away. We...
News All LSC-endorsed Resolutions for 2019 National Convention Updates: R 37, R 83 endorsed. The following are all of the Resolutions and Constitution/Bylaws changes that have been endorsed or are being discussed or voted on at the moment. We'll use...
Pamphlets Why I Support Dual Power The plan outlined in *Dual Power* is democratic, nonviolent, and resolves concerns over the feasibility of socialism[...]dual power ensures that the citizens of a future socialist society will be prepared with both the skills and mindset to succeed[...]...
Pamphlets Velvet Reds and Velvet Rage Stonewall was a bunch of poor queers throwing bricks at cops out of survival. People romanticize it as a valiant fight for freedom and tolerance with cutesy picket lines and slogans, but Stonewall at its core was a wordless, leaderless, spontaneous expression of rage....
Pamphlets Dual Power Is Not Passive We face a rabid, cornered beast with the devil's strength, but no matter how it snarls or how wide its arc of bloody destruction, it can't live forever - because it's already dying. We need to be building now because the current system will be falling soon....
Pamphlets How Working Group Autonomy Helped Defeat Amazon The origins of the No Amazon fight in New York City demonstrates the benefits of ground-up organizing, strategic coalition-building with frontline neighborhood organizations, and allowing motivated DSA members to spearhead campaigns on their own[...]...
