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Convention Story
by an Anonymous Comrade PDF 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. I was…
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Why I Support Dual Power
by Miguel O. PDF When I speak to friends about socialism, they often tell me that socialism is incompatible with the human spirit. Humans are naturally competitive, naturally want to dominate others. If we shared resources in common and lived freely, people would eventually hoard resources for themselves and grow powerful, and we’d return to…
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Velvet Reds and Velvet Rage
by an Anonymous Comrade PDF For Terri–if you had healthcare to fix your back right the first time and a safe injection site to go to, you’d still be here. Justice, justice I must pursue. What happens to an outcast groped in public by a sneering pig? Do they hide in the closet and take…
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Dual Power Is Not Passive
by Fiona M. PDF There is a critique of dual power which suggests it is a passive strategy, asking us to delay confronting capital and the state and, essentially, procrastinate on the revolution. Such critics argue that the system we live in is too powerful for any counter-state institution or network of institutions to stand…
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How Working Group Autonomy Helped Defeat Amazon
by Alex C. PDF In early November 2018, the news leaked that Amazon had finally chosen the site of its future second headquarters, the HQ2. Or, rather, the sites—as Amazon selected both Arlington, VA, and New York City to be co-hosts of these new headquarters. On Nov. 5th, an email went out from a member…
Pamphlets
One of the initiatives the Libertarian Socialist Caucus is most proud of is our DSA-LSC Pamphlet Program. In the interests of expanding discussion and debate within the DSA, we have offered to publish Caucus members’ opinions in pamphlets that can be distributed online in PDF form.
Unless otherwise stated, these pamphlets do not represent official positions of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus arrived at via consensus; rather, they represent solely the views of the author(s).
PDFs for printing are available upon request.