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First Steps to Fixing the 2024 Budget Crisis

First Steps to Fixing the 2024 Budget Crisis

Tomorrow, DSA’s National Political Committee will meet to determine many remaining items of our budget for 2024. The stakes of this meeting are high: with declining member revenue and increasing costs from staff and organizing expenses over the past few years, DSA now needs to take the potential for

Principled Socialist Values ARE Mass Politics!

Principled Socialist Values ARE Mass Politics!

On Wednesday, New York City progressive newspaper The Indypendent created controversy by wading into internal DSA factional disputes, posting on Twitter: 2/2: @DSA is a big tent org w/ many caucuses and 2 broad tendencies — one that leans into mass politics & building an org to meet the moment. The

Four Short Readings on Dialectics

Zenith Volume 3

Four Short Readings on Dialectics

NPC candidate Sam H-L summarizes four pieces on dialectics as they relate to political struggle within DSA.

All the Rules of the Art: The Struggle for Good Governance in DSA

Zenith Volume 2

All the Rules of the Art: The Struggle for Good Governance in DSA

Sam H-L. and Megan R. The crisis of leadership represented by the DSA National Political Committee’s handling of the Bowman Affair early last year has evolved into a slow-burn generalized crisis of governance for DSA. Conditions of general political stagnation nationally have accelerated contradictions within DSA’s organizing structure,

California DSA, One Year On

Zenith Volume 2

California DSA, One Year On

Sam H-L. Over the course of 2021, DSA chapters across the state ratified bylaws to form a statewide organization, California DSA. Chapters elected delegates, who held their first statewide meeting on February 18 and elected leadership for the year (I was elected and am currently serving as the Secretary). One

Organization Is Our Principal Task! On Socialist Electoral Work

Zenith Volume 1

Organization Is Our Principal Task! On Socialist Electoral Work

By Sam H-L DSA caucuses have spent endless time squabbling at the national level about “the break” from the Democrats: when this break should happen, and how clean it should be. Regardless of where you stand, the question remains the same: what should our relationship to the Democratic Party be?

Jamaal Bowman and DSA’s Crisis of Leadership

Jamaal Bowman and DSA’s Crisis of Leadership

This past December 2, DSA’s National Political Committee released a statement [https://www.dsausa.org/statements/on-the-question-of-expelling-rep-bowman/] in response to growing calls from membership to discipline Rep. Jamaal Bowman [https://jewishcurrents.org/jamaal-bowmans-trip-to-israel-sparks-debate-in-dsa-over-electoral-strategy] for a recent string of votes to provide over $4B in military aid to Israel. In

In Defense of "Zombie Marx"

In Defense of "Zombie Marx"

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.” -Karl Marx, Preface to French Edition of Capital Volume I Fellow DSASF member Alex Biancardi recently posted an article on Medium