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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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Palantir’s ‘The Technological Republic’: A digital fascist manifesto

Palantir’s manifesto reveals we face a new form of fascism whose tools of violence and repression are algorithms, big data and AI, writes Rezgar Akrawi.
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Iran and the Western left

Anti-imperialism has become a key priority for the global left. Cihan Tuğal looks at how we can best mobilise a mass anti-imperialist movement.
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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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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.
Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin, center, at Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, 1920. Lenin explained the need to back the fight for national liberation in colonies and semicolonies, for the toilers to organize independent of the imperialists and their capitalist allies there.

Eleven theses on Lenin’s theory of political oppression and the national question

Raju J Das — There is a need to not only understand what Lenin said on the national question and political oppression, but also study his ideas in light of the current world conjuncture.
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On Ernest Mandel’s contributions

Paul Le Blanc — Manuel Kellner has accomplished what earlier studies on Mandel did not provide: a systematic examination and assessment of his wide-ranging theoretical contributions.
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Paul Le Blanc on Russia’s 1917 Revolution and the problems of socialist organization

Paul Le Blanc argues there is much we can learn from the inspiring liberation struggle of 1917.
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Abdullah Öcalan: Let’s reclaim socialism through peace and building a democratic society

Abdullah Öcalan — Nation-state socialism leads to defeat. The time has come to advance toward democratic emancipation on the basis of democratic society socialism.
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Marx on communal villages as loci of revolution in Russia and beyond

Kevin B. Anderson — In his last years, Marx developed new concepts of revolution alongside that of a united working-class uprising.
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DSA, the Democratic Party and the radicalization process

Paul Le Blanc — It is essential for committed revolutionaries not simply to be satisfied with superficial characterizations of the Democratic Socialists of America, but rather to comprehend the actual significance of this organization.