American Democratic Socialism interprets the intellectual and political history of American socialism from 1829 to 2020, arguing that the USA has the richest cultural history of democratic socialism in the world and a substantial, interesting, and complex intellectual and political history. It contends that Christian socialism has been more ...

DSA founder Michael Harrington wrote widely on the relationship between democracy and socialism. In this essay, Harrington provides a brief survey of Marx’s and Engels’s approaches to democracy and socialist political strategy, Marx’s theories of capitalism, and the question of Stalinism – or, as Harrington and others often described it, “bureaucratic collectivism.” We …

A Democratic Socialists of America Publication. The conditions under which DSA attempts to build socialism are unique in history: nowhere has a developed, late-stage capitalist state–much less the most militarily and economically powerful empire on the planet–been successfully guided towards socialism, be it through electoralist or revolutionary tactics.

A Greek sociologist who taught in France from 1968 until his suicide in 1979, Poulantzas wrote on class, fascism, and the state. But the work of his that bears most directly on the question of U.S. socialist strategy today is “Towards a Democratic Socialism,” a remarkable essay published one year before his death.

A “socialism” that allows market forces to play the dominant role in economic decision-making, rather than a process of democratic participatory planning, will generate many of the oppressive features of capitalism while producing a wealthy class that will eventually move to overthrow “market socialism.”

A Democratic Socialists of America Publication. Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution Any realistic timeline for a transition to socialism will take a century or two, and there is room for statist and non-statist strategies of all kinds.

A Democratic Socialists of America Publication. Putting this year's electoral convention resolution into practice will set the groundwork for a new independent party of the working class necessary for winning socialism.

Socialism is also viewed more favorably by Black Americans (52 percent), Asian Americans (49 percent), and Hispanic Americans (41 percent) than white Americans (31 percent).45 percent of lower-income Americans also viewed socialism favorably compared to 33 percent of middle-income and 33 percent of upper-income Americans. Younger generations ...

The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign afforded us an examination of Bernie’s political perspective in a session entitled “Democratic Socialism and the Bernie Sanders Campaign,” which I led. In addition, in 2015-2017 “Slavery and the New Jim Crow” and “Climate Change and Alternatives to Capitalism” were presented by members ...

We have grown very significantly compared to other organizations. Our local Democratic Party, for example, is actually a membership organization. We don’t have party registration here in Wisconsin, but people can choose to pay dues to the Democratic Party. Last I heard, it had about 1500 members in Milwaukee.