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…

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. While this is written in hopes that my fellow delegates will read it, I’m doing…

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? To cast him as a leftist mirror image of Republican President Donald Trump whose sycophantic antics towards Russia is one…

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. Jill Stein arguably spoiled the 2016 election and Ralph Nader played the same role the 2000…