Excellent write-up although some of it makes for politically painful reading. Since about mid-2017 I've felt that DSA's problem isn’t structural but cultural which means they are even more difficult to change, fix, and root-out because the same problems that exist now would manifest themselves anew in new forms even…

"I don’t know what impels a legitimate magazine to publish an outright slander. At a moment when it is absolutely contemptible from just about any standpoint you can take. What’s with the alt-Left? WTF!" Not a coincidence that Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara (also a DSA member) is now the boss of The Nation.

"Therefore, we see how illogical and dishonest it is to utilize an out-of-context rough draft written during the war and discarded soon after in 2021." Presumably 2021 here is supposed to read "1917"? Excellent work here though, seriously. It's about time someone set the record straight on the abuse of this line.

Excellent and thorough overview of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense’s politics and its complicated relationship with competing/overlapping ideologies! It’s a difficult topic to do justice to but you nailed it IMO. One minor quibble about an important point though: “There was, as Rashid mentioned, a lack of real democratic…

By Charles Lenchner. Originally posted on Facebook on August 2, 2019 under the title, “Analysis: The Central Conflicts in DSA.” Over 1,000 delegates from the Democratic Socialists of America are meeting this weekend in Atlanta. …

The latest and perhaps most egregious example of Jacobin promoting right-wing politics is the eulogy of Eduard Limonov, founder of Russia's National Bolshevik Party. Its author, Maciej Zurowski, describes himself as a Marxist yet was excited by the Nazi symbols employed by Limonov and his followers: Pictures of “Nazbol” demonstrations…

Critics of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders began spreading misinformation about his voting record on Russia after reports emerged that Vladimir Putin’s regime is boosting his 2020 presidential campaign. Their aim? …

By Jason Hicks. Republished with permission. Prefatory note: I’m sharing a draft because I need to turn to other projects for now, and though it’s lacking in certain connective tissue and some leads should be followed up more in-depth, I’d like to lay out the evidence and argument I’ve put…

There is a lot of talk about Democratic Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard potentially spoiling the 2020 president election to re-elect Donald Trump by running as third-party or independent presidential candidate, splitting the anti-Trump vote. …