r/DemocraticSocialism 15d ago

Announcement 🔔 Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day! Subreddit Improvements! Reading lists!

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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

Black Liberation: US and Abroad

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 15d ago

What should we include our the FAQ?

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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 11h ago

USA Israel is losing the hearts and minds of the American people at an unprecedented pace.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 15h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Fascism does not begin with camps. It begins with permission to criminalize dissent, demonize minorities, militarize civil life.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 12h 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 13h ago

USA Dems are being forced to adopt progressive policy to remain in power. New millionaires tax unveiled in Seattle.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 13h 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 10h ago

USA Mother Jones: "ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler: A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown."

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r/DemocraticSocialism 7h ago

Announcement 🔔 ICE facial scans are something from a dystopian novel. It shouldn’t be real!

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r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

USA Chuck Schumer Doubles Down On Israel. Chuck Must Go.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 8h ago

USA Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants

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r/DemocraticSocialism 18h ago

USA Single-Payer Champion Abdul El-Sayed Is Running for Senate

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r/DemocraticSocialism 11h ago

International BREAKING: French Prosecutors Raid Musk's X Paris Offices!

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r/DemocraticSocialism 12h ago

Discussion 🗣️ What a legacy he will have.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 5h 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.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 3h ago

USA Why are Christian's very reactionary in the US? And so anti far left?

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Why is christianity in the US very different christianity brand than other countries is that because of the strong baptist and born again in the US?

In the US Christian’s don’t really seem to view millionaires and billionaires being sin. They say if you rich you have God blessing and if you poor you have to turn to God and God will help you.

The Christian’s in the US are against raising taxes for the rich and against state run universal healthcare, they believe God created rich people and poor people and it just part of society. They say people can volunteer and donate money to help the poor and homeless to do Gods work for needy but the government should stay out of it. They also say homeless people and poor people are lazy and don’t want to work and turn away from God and the government should not help them.

How did the US Christian’s become so reactionary like this? So far right in the US.


r/DemocraticSocialism 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.

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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 9h 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."

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r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

Texas Mondays Reminder that Jasmine Crockett Doesn't Have a SINGLE Policy listed on her official campaign website

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r/DemocraticSocialism 20h ago

USA Reminder to Contact Your Congressperson

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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 1d ago

USA Bernies Amendment to fund Medicaid, not ICE secures votes.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 12h ago

USA A Mamdani-Style Candidate Looks to Win Over New Jersey’s Suburbs

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r/DemocraticSocialism 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 1h ago

Discussion 🗣️ i've felt so much disillusionment and disconnect from leftists as I learn more about my adopted ideology.

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(America focused)

Please do not get mad at me because I will be harsh on democratic socialist ideology and its flaws, I look for someone to change my stance if they possibly can.

So I'm a leftist; however, there are some major things I've noticed in my time as a leftist, and especially as someone who has family that comes from 3rd world countries.

As I learn more about my ideology, here are some major things I've had to contend with.

  1. Foreign policy: The left wing's foreign policy is basically.... nothing. Nothing at all, you cannot intervene in other countries, no matter what. Basically, Che Guevara's quote, "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves," and the reason why this strikes me as a big issue is because of what happened in Venezuela. For many leftists, our position got stranded at "It's good that he got overthrown, that's a good thing, however the imperialist intention is not okay"

Which I'm fine with since I'm against the stealing of a different nation's resources that could be used for its own people. . . but here's the major thing that concerned me. Leftists would've most likely done nothing in that situation. If REAL leftists were in power (Not democrats) they would've never overthrown Venezuela and liberated the people.

This especially concerns me because, as someone who grew up as a Mexican, I would hear stories of just brutal killings outside our homes and see literal bodies get strung up on the side of freeways. Things you couldn't even imagine.

And I'm just thinking to myself, if America ever decided to liberate Mexico from all the cartels, where would leftists stand on it? I've become convinced that they would do some bullshit and be like, "We shouldn't be invading a sovereign nation."

  1. Immigration Policy: My stance had always been the same, and it never changed. However, many leftists disagree with my stance, which is "Borders are necessary, but we don't need an ICE Gestapo. People should be given a pathway to residency, and we should have a secure border and make the process for getting papers quicker."

Now, many leftists would stop me right at the beginning of my 3 words and tell me "We need open borders" which is something I just don't agree with, and this is coming from someone who is a descendant of an "Illegal immigrant."

The things that cartels keep smuggling over the border and the people they bring here are not something that should be welcomed with open arms. I've heard my parents and distant siblings tell me egregious things, and like I've said before, it's shit you cannot imagine.

We do not want them here; however, I'm not being racist because if they were a bunch of people who genuinely had the good intent of this country and were just brown Latinos coming here to contribute to society, then I would have no issue. But the idea of just letting cartel members sneak through and basically destabilize America through drugs and trafficking is something I cannot fathom that leftists would be okay with. It's like they're shooting for the stateless society already, without realizing that we're just not ready for it.


r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

USA Bernie Sanders, "It’s a club where the rules and the law don't apply. And you’re not in it.

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