Dear comrade: Thank you for reading the third edition of Zenith: Red Star’s journal of theory and critique. Red Star is a caucus in the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA. As revolutionary Marxists and scientific socialists, we believe that developing an understanding of our political conditions through practice

By Joseph H. The creation of the proletariat, the wage-laboring working class, is the definitive characteristic of Capitalism.  As capital is accumulated, the working class grows, a mutually reinforcing process that powers the dynamo of Capitalism.  The number of people exploited in this manner, and the extent of the exploitation,

By Cara H. Living in the Bay Area means constantly being promised a better world by tech CEOs and venture capitalists, while simultaneously being constantly confronted by the failings of capitalism via astronomical rents, massive homelessness, and the failure of public institutions. If this better world is coming, heralded by

Making the Most of the Revolutionary Situation That Isn’t By Eugene Violet > We must not turn away from the truth: we do not yet possess the capacity for revolution, otherwise we would have seen a unified mass movement come out of the remarkable revolutionary energy of the past