The leftist Democratic Socialists of America was tiny before the 2016 election. Now, with 90,000 dues-paying members and four seats in Congress, the DSA is upending Democratic politics nationwide.
How socialism stopped being a dirty word for some voters - and started winning elections across America
Joshua Kluever, Binghamton University, State University of New York
May 5, 2021
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(THE CONVERSATION) The leftist Democratic Socialists of America, which helped congressional star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get elected in 2018, looks to be a big political player again in New York City’s 2021 municipal elections.
The group has not yet endorsed anyone for mayor – the top prize in New York’s June 22 Democratic primaries. But all 51 city council seats are up for grabs this year, and the DSA has members running for six of them – including Queens public defender Tiffany Cabán and Brooklyn tenant activist Michael Hollingsworth.
Will Biden Be Another Roosevelt?
the weekly newspaper of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) of France.
Perhaps the most frequently discussed question lately is: Will President Joseph Biden be another Franklin D. Roosevelt? FDR’s presidency, from 1933 to 1945, transformed the United States with its New Deal, a collection of social welfare programs that rewrote the nation’s social contract. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, with banks collapsing, corporations contracting, small businesses failing, and 25 percent unemployment, FDR created massive jobs programs, expanded government relief, and most important created Social Security retirement program and passed the National Labor Relations Act, giving unions the right to organize. Roosevelt also built the New Deal Coalition, made up of labor unions, Black Americans, and corporations that produced consumer goods, which became the base of the Democratic Party for the next 75 years.
No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist
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No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist
No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist | Thursday, April 29, 2021
âThe early church was a socialist church.â
So said the Rev. Raphael Warnock in 2016, four years before the citizens of Georgia elected him as a U.S. senator.
âThe early church was a socialist church.â
So said Rev. Raphael Warnock in 2016, four years before the citizens of Georgia elected him a U.S. senator.
Itâs a strange statement, least of all because the description âsocialist churchâ is an oxymoron. Not only would the Church fathers be puzzled by it, but so would socialismâs fathers.
âEveryone must be absolutely free to ⦠be an atheist,â wrote Vladimir Lenin, âwhich every socialist is, as a rule.â
âReligion and communism are incompatible, both theoretically and practically,â noted Nikolai Bukharin, founding editor of Pravda. âCommunism is incompatible with religious faith.â On behalf of the Bolsheviks, he insisted: âA fight to the death must be declared upon religion. We must take on religion at the tip of the bayonet.â