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A User’s Guide to DSA: 5 Debates That Define the Democratic Socialists

Defining Democratic Socialists of America

Paul Le Blanc reviews ‘A User’s Guide to DSA’, which connects readers with the largest organisation on the US left while drawing them into a series of debates among committed party members.
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Saying goodbye to Lenin?

Paul Le Blanc engages in a critical dialogue with Dan La Botz’s “Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism,” arguing we should continue to learn critically from Lenin’s experiences, successes, shortcomings, mistakes and unfinished tasks.
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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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Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism

Leninists seldom asked themselves: if Lenin was always right, why did things go so wrong in Russia? Dan La Botz argues it is time to say goodbye to Lenin and Leninism.
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Lenin and today’s socialist struggle in the United States

Paul Le Blanc shares some thoughts on Leninism, democratic centralism, party organization and related matters for today’s socialist struggle.
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Paul Le Blanc: Why I am rejoining Solidarity and some thoughts on the future

Paul Le Blanc explains why he is rejoining Solidarity and how it fits into his thinking about what we are facing and “what is to be done” at this point in time.

Broken world, broken people – we need a path to a better future

By Shawn Hattingh

After Trotskyism, what? Some personal thoughts

By Arash Azizi
“The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nigh

Ideas for the struggle #12 - Do not confuse desires with reality

1. Unfortunately, there tends to be a lot of subjectivism in our analysis of the political situation. What tends to occur is that leaders, driven by their revolutionary passion, tend to confuse desires with reality.

Ideas for the struggle #11 - Popular consultations: spaces that allow for the convergence of different forces

1. I have previously argued the case for the need to create a large social bloc against neoliberalism that can unite all those affected by the system.

Ideas for the struggle #10 - A strategy for building the unity of the left

1. I have previously referred to the necessity of building unity among all left forces and actors in order to be able to cohere a broad anti-neoliberal bloc around them.

Ideas for the struggle #9 - Respect differences and be flexible in regards to activism

1. There continues to be a difficulty within the left to deal with differences.

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