Lenin’s (and Red Star’s) vanguard arises from organic unity of struggle, not sectarian posturing. DSA’s intelligentsia-heavy composition must anchor itself in the battles of the exploited to both transform its own character and draw the base into revolutionary struggle.| Red Star
The primarily white character of DSA is shaped by the contradictions within the class position of its base, being both wage-earning proletarians and beneficiaries of imperialist superprofits. We must reckon with the historical attachment to reformism created by this struggle.| Red Star
R.P. Dutt’s 1934 book Fascism and Social Revolution analyzes the rise of fascism in Europe with a class-based lens that many post-WWI histories lack. His analysis of fascism as an expansion of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in the context of a failed revolution is instructive to revisit today.| Red Star