What if “socialism” is not a prefigured identity to aspire to, but a culmination of effects produced through the struggle to reshape society itself? In his latest work, Kolya Ludwig revisits the left’s misunderstanding of political subjectivity and its implications for socialist strategy, drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism.

Nithya Raman has won the official endorsement of DSA-LA following weeks of contentious yet constructive debate in Geese by both sides of the question. J. Ryder argues that the entire chapter should now mobilize and unite under a permanent campaign to build a socialist pole in LA and defeat Karen Bass to meet the crucial challenges ahead against the establishment.

Fifty years after the death of Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China surprisingly continues to resonate on the American left, from the Black Panther Party’s historic "Serve the People" programs to Hasan Piker’s choice of attire today. Mao’s contributions to communist practice—namely the Mass Line and the concretization of Marxism to national conditions—remain instructive to American socialists. In his debut piece, Devin G explores why a 20th-century Chinese revolutionary still resonates in the heart of the American empire.

The battle lines of the struggle for liberation in the United States have been drawn. On the one side stand the united forces of reaction, who seek to simultaneously divide and homogenize our country through the construction of a Nation. On the other side stand the progressive impulses toward cosmopolitanism and universalism that defend a multiple society. Jack M. argues that to take up the mantle of this democratic revolution, communists must cohere these ranks and take up the fight against the Nation. 

Is left populism the answer to the revolutionary impasse of the 21st century? In his latest, Matthew Hunter takes on Chantal Mouffe’s theory expounded in her work For A Left Populism, interrogating its Eurocentric and reformist characteristics. He writes that until this milieu becomes more inclusive and audacious in leading the diverse demographics it claims to represent, it will always fall short.