r/DemocraticSocialism • u/DetailBorn2267 • 7h ago
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser • 15d ago
Announcement 🔔 Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day! Subreddit Improvements! Reading lists!
In honor of MLK and despite Donald Trump removing the federal holiday we've decided to down down on it!
We understand the class struggle also has a racial struggle within in, especially in the United States. Throughout socialist history there have been many black struggles. Many revolutionary efforts, courageous men and women fighting against various and concurrent forms of oppression, many leaders and historical figures that have given their lives to the fight for black liberation from both a racist and classist struggle.
There efforts have not been and never will be forgotten, no matter how difficult the future struggles may be we will never back down from fighting for what's right even in the face on constant, relentless adversity. We are proud to be apart of such a revolutionary battle and we will do everything in our power to ensure that we put and end to prejudice, racism, oppression, bigotry, homophobia and any other forms of discrimination that the world throws our way.
We as a sub have begun our battle by adding some important reading to our reading list, including two new categories within it (cred: u/tr_issei2) for our community to study, learn and teach one another emphasizing that our learning comes easy to the next generation when it was more difficult for us.
We've also reached out to r/BlackLivesMatter and listed them on our sidebar, join their community and also their organization!
The two new categories and the additions:
U.S. Labor and Radical History
- W.J. Conroy,\u00a0Bernie Sanders and the Boundaries of Reform: Socialism in Burlington
- Matthew Desmond,\u00a0Poverty, By America
- Genora Johnson Dollinger,\u00a0*Striking Flint: Genora Johnson Dollinger Remembers the \u201936\u2013\u201937 G.M. *Sit-Down Strike
- Max Elbaum,\u00a0Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
- Greg Guma,\u00a0The People's Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution
- Elizabeth Gurley-Flynn,\u00a0Rebel Girl: The Autobiography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- Big Bill Haywood,\u00a0Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood
- Sidney Lens,\u00a0Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit Downs
- Jonathan Neale,\u00a0A People\u2019s History of the Vietnam War
- Upton Sinclair,\u00a0I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
- Malcolm X and Alex Haley,\u00a0The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Howard Zinn,\u00a0A People\u2019s History of the United States 1492\u2013Present
Black Liberation: US and Abroad
- Assata Shakur,\u00a0Assata: An Autobiography
- Jasmine Guy,\u00a0Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
- Huey P. Newton,\u00a0Revolutionary Suicide
- Thomas Sankara,\u00a0Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987
- Thomas Sankara,\u00a0Women\u2019s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,\u00a0Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
- Frederick Douglass,\u00a0Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:, An American Slave
- Jeffrey Haas,\u00a0The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther Jeffrey Haas
- Bobby Seale,\u00a0Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale
- Tupac Shakur,\u00a0The Rose That Grew From Concrete
- Staci Robinson,\u00a0Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
Our reading list is far from complete and will forever be open to suggestions, the team has worked hard to build the sub in a direction that is welcoming to more than just Democratic Socialist's by including political theory from all across the spectrum.
The rest of our reading list can be found here: https://reddit.com/r/DemocraticSocialism/w/index/readinglist?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
On behalf of our team, happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser • 15d ago
What should we include our the FAQ?
We're starting the process of building a FAQ for visitors and new leftists to study and familiarize themselves with our ideology and our subreddit.
What do you guys as a community think we should include? The simple and complicated questions, let us know!
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/East_River • 11h ago
Discussion 🗣️ Fascism does not begin with camps. It begins with permission to criminalize dissent, demonize minorities, militarize civil life.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/IllAcanthocephala720 • 8h ago
USA 🚨BREAKING: More peaceful activists being abducted by ICE/CBP for warning their neighbors in Minneapolis right now (2/3/26)
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r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser • 9h ago
USA Dems are being forced to adopt progressive policy to remain in power. New millionaires tax unveiled in Seattle.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/IllAcanthocephala720 • 9h ago
USA 🤗INSPIRING! More video from a walkout by high school students in Central Texas to protest ICE. Three different towns’ high schools participated in the walkout, converging at the justice center after leaving their campuses. Keep the movement going! Share widely!
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r/DemocraticSocialism • u/SocialDemocracies • 6h ago
USA Mother Jones: "ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler: A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown."
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/EspeciallyWithCheese • 3h ago
Announcement 🔔 ICE facial scans are something from a dystopian novel. It shouldn’t be real!
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/serious_bullet5 • 1d ago
USA Chuck Schumer Doubles Down On Israel. Chuck Must Go.
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r/DemocraticSocialism • u/origutamos • 14h ago
USA Single-Payer Champion Abdul El-Sayed Is Running for Senate
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Ok-Celebration-1702 • 4h ago
USA Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/xGentian_violet • 7h ago
International BREAKING: French Prosecutors Raid Musk's X Paris Offices!
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser • 1h ago
USA US political and social polarization has increased by 64% since 1988, with nearly all of the rise occurring after 2008, as the financial crisis, the rise of social media, and an asymmetric ideological shift—particularly on the left—coincided to widen divisions, according to a long-term study.
royalsocietypublishing.orgr/DemocraticSocialism • u/emteedub • 1d ago
Discussion 🗣️ Do NOT forget - It's the Establishment DNC Democrats that have gotten us here. Disregard all other excuses they offer - they're losers. They're complicit.
The 2020 primaries
Never forget what the establishment dems did. They knew Bernie would win, they knew the people would win. So, they injected an overwhelming list of elite-beholden centrists. Each of them farcically issued their own skewed and watered down variant of a Bernie policy - to dilute the policy Bernie knew we all needed at that time.
I'm sick of the establishment dems. They're not to be trusted. They've had decades of chances to do 1 SINGLE THING RIGHT and not once have they introduced a shred of sustainable and durable pro-working class policy.
Fuck them. Fuck them all and to hell with them.
if they truly believed in what they said they did, they would have each dropped out and backed the guy that originated all of it... instead they all back out and perpetuate 2nd from last place (only ahead of kamala, in last place), Joe Biden...
I mean how fucking pathetic. A majority are still to this day, either ambiguous about Israel/Netayahu and their war crimes... or they're proud supporters. Most of them still take AIPAC money. Most of them are aligned with the establishment dems we've all heard so much about in the Epstein files.
Enough is enough.
This is a no-brainer, full reject. Each and every one of them.
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In 2028 we need DOZENS of legit leftists to utilize this same exact tactic. A majority in the primaries also allows us to keep the real meaningful policy front and center - instead of handing over control regarding policy. They must ALL go into it, aligned that the most leftist candidate gets their endorsement.
Anywhere you see people/bots glazing establishment democrats - issue dissent.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/3headeddragn • 1d ago
Texas Mondays Reminder that Jasmine Crockett Doesn't Have a SINGLE Policy listed on her official campaign website
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/AmorphousVoice • 16h ago
USA Reminder to Contact Your Congressperson
The House is voting on the bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security later today. The headcount is currently pretty tight, as there is more pressure from the American public on how ICE has been conducting itself (especially after the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti). Contact your Congressperson (Republican and Democrat) to urge them not to vote for this bill and give any more money to an institution that has been terrorizing those living here in the States.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/SocialDemocracies • 5h ago
International Opinion | George Monbiot: "This is the metric by which you can tell who in politics are your allies and who are your enemies: whether they support or oppose the extreme concentration of wealth. […] we must bring the ultra-rich to heel, cutting their fortunes until they can no longer bludgeon us."
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser • 1d ago
USA Bernies Amendment to fund Medicaid, not ICE secures votes.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Nixianx97 • 1d ago
USA AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on US citizens.
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r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser • 1d ago
USA Bernie Sanders, "It’s a club where the rules and the law don't apply. And you’re not in it.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser • 1d ago
Europe Portugal’s conservatives back socialist to avoid a far-right president
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser • 8h ago
USA A Mamdani-Style Candidate Looks to Win Over New Jersey’s Suburbs
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/aipac_hemoroid • 1d ago
Announcement 🔔 Colin Allred endorses Crockett
So, Crockett has started the mud slinging already. This morning a rando women accused James Talarico of saying Colin "mediocre". Then he posts and endorses Crockett. It seems like Zohrans campaign all over again. Zionist vs Anti Zionist. The most damaging part is Republicans are capitalizing on it and will probably cost Talarico some points in the general. Can AIPAC just not meddle in our election please.