What if “socialism” is not a prefigured identity to aspire to, but a culmination of effects produced through the struggle to reshape society itself? In his latest work, Kolya Ludwig revisits the left’s misunderstanding of political subjectivity and its implications for socialist strategy, drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism.

Nithya Raman has won the official endorsement of DSA-LA following weeks of contentious yet constructive debate in Geese by both sides of the question. J. Ryder argues that the entire chapter should now mobilize and unite under a permanent campaign to build a socialist pole in LA and defeat Karen Bass to meet the crucial challenges ahead against the establishment.

Fifty years after the death of Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China surprisingly continues to resonate on the American left, from the Black Panther Party’s historic "Serve the People" programs to Hasan Piker’s choice of attire today. Mao’s contributions to communist practice—namely the Mass Line and the concretization of Marxism to national conditions—remain instructive to American socialists. In his debut piece, Devin G explores why a 20th-century Chinese revolutionary still resonates in the heart of the American empire.

The battle lines of the struggle for liberation in the United States have been drawn. On the one side stand the united forces of reaction, who seek to simultaneously divide and homogenize our country through the construction of a Nation. On the other side stand the progressive impulses toward cosmopolitanism and universalism that defend a multiple society. Jack M. argues that to take up the mantle of this democratic revolution, communists must cohere these ranks and take up the fight against the Nation. 

In the final installment of her three-part series, Cassandra Luna argues that the struggle for bodily and political autonomy requires the ruthless pragmatism of a ‘transocialist’ technopolitics. She urges the left to understand that time is running out to overthrow the technofascist empire, and that defeating them requires that we abandon our dogmas and embrace politics on the terms of the masses. To build the needed power to choose our own bodies, transocialists must aggressively leverage the DSA, back a 2028 presidential campaign for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and forge a radical socialist political pole.