As socialist projects globally struggle to maintain sovereignty against a crisis-ridden capitalist pole, US socialists and those in DSA must take a broad, non-sectarian approach towards understanding socialist projects, building solidarity through education and people-to-people diplomacy.| Red Star
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
Red Star strives to be a Marxist-Leninist center in DSA, as described in Hal Draper’s Anatomy of the Micro-sect. In this piece, Sean T. and Matt M. describe two complementary dimensions of this construct – the ‘faction’ and the ‘tendency’ – as well as how both need to exist in balance.| 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
DSA finds itself in a defining political moment—amid global crises and the unsustainability of global capitalism, the contradictions that face DSA must be confronted. Joseph H. argues that we must build a foundation that prioritizes member-organizers to raise the roof on a vanguard party.| Red Star
Red Star elaborates on what the caucus is, what we believe, and how we approach DSA.| Red Star
Christian CW discusses how, of the two dominant labor strategies in DSA – tailism and reformism – neither build a socialist pole in the labor movement nor amount to a strategy that considers the revolutionary role of the proletariat.| Red Star