The Living Fraternity of Militants
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.
Spring 2025
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The World That Municipal Socialists Built
Urban socialists blazed a path toward social democracy. Leftists who want to reclaim this tradition face a whole new set of obstacles.
Inconsistent Populists: Sohrab Ahmari and the Anti-Neoliberal Right
Tyranny, Inc. aims to build a working-class coalition between the left and right. But Ahmari cannot get around the GOP populists’ dismal record on labor.
Liberty Machines and Dark Tech
An interview with Evgeny Morozov on The Santiago Boys, a podcast about a project inside the Allende government that tried to use cybernetics to manage an economy under assault.
Lessons from Gramsci
The Italian theorist continues to offer important insights for organizers in the socialist lineage.
Bananas for Socialism
In any socialist future worth living in, an abundance of diverse foods would replace the tyranny of monoculture.
Liberal Commitments
An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.
The Spirit of Yiddish Socialism
The history of the Bund as a party came to an end long ago, but the effects of its cultural and political work live on.
Organizing for the Long Haul
The major question facing DSA in the next few years is whether the organization can build deeper roots in the working class, particularly the labor movement.
What Socialist Politicians Can Do: An Interview with Nikil Saval
Socialism is rooted in a philosophical optimism that our movement is based in a majority.
Park Socialists
Chicago’s steel mills are forty years gone to brownfields. Most of the union halls are shuttered. Yet the parks, with their fieldhouses and pools and quiet preserves, remain as enduring gifts from social visionaries.
A Living Tradition
To prevent socialism from becoming stale orthodoxy, we need to be alive to changes in the world around us.
A Simple Ethos
The implementation of socialism is dauntingly complex, beset on all sides by historical forces and individual corruption. But I’m still a socialist because it is a way to be a human among humans, a person in a society of the people.
We’re All Social Democrats Now
On the left, talk of proletarian revolution has given way to vital debates about how to enact Medicare for All and a Green New Deal, revive unionism, and strip the power of the Supreme Court.
Backlash and Bad Vibes
A roundtable on Democrats and the left.
