The Boston PEWG Editors Boston DSA’s June General Meeting will see an amendment presented to allow online voting for some kinds of decisions our organization makes. Since this idea was first introduced by in the Electoral Working Group’s proposed endorsement process, it has attracted some degree of controversy in the chapter. Here at the PEWG …
Building a Base Through Tenant Unionizing
By Chris E. and Mike L., Boston Refoundation Like nearly every other American city, Boston is facing a housing crisis. Rents are on the rise across the Greater Boston area, and processes of development and redevelopment displace longtime residents and restrict the population of ever-growing parts of the city to an ever-shrinking class of bourgeois …
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Eugenics 2.0: How Dialectical Materialism Can End the Nature vs. Nurture Debate.
By Nafis H. The recent opinion piece by prominent geneticist David Reich has once again fanned the flames of the debate on race, genetics, and intelligence. This is not a new debate — after eugenics was supposedly put to rest, it appeared that this ideology had taken refuge in the shadows of evolutionary psychology and behavior genetics. …
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We’re All Paper Members
by Katherine I. Recently, a letter was submitted to the Steering Committee expressing concerns around the dynamics of online voting in the chapter, and whether it should be permissible for members to vote on endorsements outside the framework of a live (streamed or in-person) General Meeting. The letter made several points against online voting, and …
Open Response: BDSA Endorsement Process
By Kathryn A., Steering Committee I’m heartened by the discussion I’ve seen unfolding over the past weeks, starting with the Electoral Working Group meeting, and then continued with the open letter signed onto by some of our comrades. This sparked discussions in person and across a variety of other platforms. I’ve seen other members take …
Open Response: Online Endorsement Votes in Boston DSA
By Maddie H., Co-Chair The Boston DSA Steering Committee recently received an open letter from a member and multiple co-signers calling for the Steering Committee to intervene in our Electoral Working Group’s candidate endorsement plan. The letter asks the SC to set up a process by which the membership can choose whether to block online …
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There Is No Mass Movement Without Prison Abolition
By Alexis, Drew D, Elizabeth K, Jesse W, and Zoey M, Boston Refoundation A socialist revolution cannot occur without prison abolition. As socialists, we must fully commit to abolition as a cornerstone of our movement. This commitment is not an issue of just a rhetorical choice to use the term “abolition.” That term has real-world …
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A Open Letter to the Boston DSA Steering Committee on Online Voting
By Edward P Dear Steering Committee comrades, After the April 25th meeting to discuss an endorsement process for Boston DSA, it is clear that we are at an impasse in regards to the use of online voting for electoral endorsements and the only possible resolution for this argument is a vote at a General Meeting. …
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Two Sentences
by Jonathan K. Do things that work. Get shit done. These two sentences are my entire political philosophy. All of my political positions, how I engage with politics, and the effort I put into political activism on a day-to-day basis all come down to these two sentences. I want to share these sentences and explain …
Fundamental Socialism: Imperialism and Internationalism – 2/24/18
Link to audio recording Fundamental Socialism: Imperialism and Internationalism Brandon: Alright. Welcome, everyone, to Socialist Fundamentals: Imperialism and Internationalism. As DSA has grown, one of the critiques from other left groups has sort of been a lack of analysis of imperialism, or global capitalism, and whatnot within DSA, and particularly in its history. So we …
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