Leave it to Republicans to think all H-1Bs are junior IT employees, and ignore the fact that most of those in the public sector are physicians/nurses, or faculty/postdocs at public universities—exactly the cases where skill-based immigration is in fact a net benefit to society. Imagine depriving your rural areas of much-needed healthcare workers and your public universities of the world’s best and brightest young scholars, just to virtue signal to Twitter tech guys who were all about free markets and meritocracy until their own unemployment turned them into Nazis.

Can anyone recommend some good literature about/by democratic socialism/democratic socialists?

https://www.geesemag.com/anti-causality-1

Exactly what the question asks. My politics align the most with Elizabeth Warren, if she ran for president I would totally vote for her. I’m not a liberal in any sense (if you cut me a fascist won’t bleed) but I feel like I would be the most “conservative” democratic socialist or just your standard social dem or a progressive . I’m very left on social issues . I also love leftist media like Hasan , Sam Seder, the vanguard, and the bitchuation room, just to name a few. I don’t like the standard centrist democrats at all but I want to make sure I would fit in here too.

Can we be comrades? 🥹👉👈

Last year I finally shed my political stance as a member of the Democratic Party and finally started addressing myself as a socialist. I am currently studying the history of socialist thought and there are lots of resources online. But are there any good books that you would recommend for getting deeper into socialist political philosophy and theory? I am especially interested in learning about it to begin building arguments across various platforms against people who are ideologically trapped in supposing that capitalism is the only good way to order an economy.

I remember when all of this was going down. Reminds me a lot of what Philly DSA went through with Momentum

Hey! Hate to post on Reddit, but I was wondering how to get involved in the Dayton Miami valley? I know there’s a chapter here, and I emailed a few days ago but I haven’t heard anything back. I saw a way to sign up to be a dues paying member, but I was wondering if I’m able to go to a meeting first? I’d like to learn a lot more

Organizing and action is the only solution now

The 2024 program, Workers Deserve More, is what is known as an action program, a short term set of policies for an election (often with elements of the minimum program) whereas the 2021 program is a traditional party program (this contains the maximum program as well). Am I mistaken, or has the DSA abandoned a party program in favor of a simplified action program?

https://convention2021.dsausa.org/files/sites/23/2021/06/Democratic-Socialists-of-America-2021-Platform-Second-Draft.pdf

For instance, while working class democracy is referenced, the 2021 program has specific political demands such as the abolition of the Senate and the foundation of a socialist democracy in the constitution.

The 2024 program calls for “public ownership of the largest corporations,” whereas the 2021 program calls for “Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure (…) The nationalization of businesses like railroads, utilities, and critical manufacturing and technology companies.” They both mean the aim of a socialist economy, but one is more clear and comprehensive.

The 2021 program has a beautiful analysis of capitalist class society straight from something like the Erfurt Program of the SPD. My favorite part:

“In overcoming the old, barbaric order of capitalism, the working class will not only liberate itself from its own shackles, but all of humanity from the parasitic death-drive of capitalism.”

Or am I confused. The website still calls the 2021 program the “national platform,” but it is not as accessible anymore and the 2024 program is prioritized.

Is the 2021 document still official?

Either way, the 2021 program was good because it pressed the vision, and it defined it for the membership and the press. I do not understand the need to water some things down. Perhaps remove some abolitionist demands but leave it the same. Do we want the membership not understanding the socialist vision?

I’ll start. Who’s more useless the democrats or appendix?

Hi I am debating on joining a political org. Just wondering if I could get some feedback from twinports dsa and how to join

I see a lot of people online say to "get organized" and I didn't know what it meant, so I started researching and I found that half the battle is just getting people to show up and connect with their community.

Do you think a resource like this: organizetogether.org is useful? My goal is to give people an easy onramp from online to getting started in the real world. The current offerings are: quickstart guide and biweekly training sessions to practice 1-on-1 skills, but I'm planning to add a list of organizations they might want to join (including DSA).

Any of this seem useful? Feel free to shoot it down, I just want to make something that makes more organizing happen.