DSA’s Future: Socialism, Elections and the Limits of Relying on the Ballot Line (opens in new tab)

Paul Le Blanc’s review of A User’s Guide to DSA: 5 Debates That Define the Democratic Socialists performs a useful service, as it treats the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) seriously. That alone is welcome. Too much of the socialist left either dismisses DSA as hopelessly reformist or romanticises it as the embryo of a mass workers’ party. [...]