By José LaLuz
José LaLuz is currently employed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. He is a Vice Chair of DSA. This is a transcription of a presentation given at the Young Democratic Socialists Winter Conference on February 18, 2007.
I wanted to put a number of things on the table for […]
Socialist Politics Here and Now
The struggle for the free, classless society is going to take much longer than we would like and that there’s no guarantee that we’ll be fully successful in reaching it. Fundamentally changing human consciousness and building alternative institutions takes a great deal of time. The fight against capitalism—and the […]
Evolution and Revolution
A hundred years ago, when socialist parties were becoming enormous and socialism really did seem to be on the historical agenda, there were famous debates about whether it could be accomplished peacefully through the election of socialists to office or if the working class would have to forcibly overthrow the existing capitalist state. […]
The Socialist Ideal and the Capitalist World
The values of socialism are the exact opposite of those of capitalism: the principle of cooperation replaces that of acquisitive competition. The socialist vision is of a world without social classes, in which all people’s material needs are met and everyone is able to fully develop his or her […]
By Jason Schulman
The Essence of Capitalism
We live in an insane world. Today we see, more than ever, incalculable wealth standing opposed to unspeakable misery. Millions die of curable or preventable diseases while the United States government wastes hundreds of billions of dollars on arms production. Half the world’s working population makes $2 a day or […]
Few people in the United States know anything about the history of the socialist movement. The term “social democracy” is not part of the U.S. political vocabulary, and its achievements in Europe almost never discussed in U.S. high school social studies; the origins and development of socialist political philosophies (social democracy, Communism, Trotskyism, […]
