Anthony Teso

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DSA’s future: Socialism, elections and the limits of relying on the ballot line

The issue is not whether the Democratic Socialists of America matters — it clearly does, writes Anthony Teso. The question is can it evolve beyond a project aimed at moving the Democratic Party to the left within the existing political system.
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Lenin, democracy and the anti-Leninist shortcut

Responding to Dan La Botz’s “Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism”, Anthony Teso writes that what we need is neither a Lenin cult nor an anti-Leninist shortcut that confuses renunciation with strategy.

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