Democratic Socialists - I need some info.

[commie kg]

Recently I have become interested in Democratic Socialism, does anyone have some good net resources on this particular ideology? I know there's quite a few Democratic Socialists in these forums.
Thanks!

[Umoja]

www.sp-usa.org

This is Americas primary Democratic Socialist organization. Although most leftist organizations are satured by Democratic Socialist. Howard Zinn would probubly be the most well known one, besides Eugene V. Debs.

Ummm..... Specific information I could try to impart as well.

[antieverything]

http://www.socnet.net

http://www.dsa.org

http://www.greenparty.org

The last one is, interestingly enough, the most radically and uncompromisingly anti-capitalist group.

[peaccenicked]

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/

[RedCeltic]

Quote: from antieverything on 9:57 pm on Mar. 14, 2003
http://www.socnet.net

http://www.dsa.org

http://www.greenparty.org

The last one is, interestingly enough, the most radically and uncompromisingly anti-capitalist group.



That's not the Democratic Socialists of America website... their URL is http://www.dsausa.org

And

That's not the official website for the Green Party... it's http://www.greenpartyus.org/

And... the Green Party isn't a Democratic Socialist party but rather is a party that has become the umbrella left party in the United States so has a large contingent of Democratic Socialists.

Even though I've seen many anarchists, communists, etc among us Greens.

[Som]

Theres actually two green parties in america RC, the one he linked is the Greens/green party USA, which is older and quite a bit more radical than the gpusa.

Most of their policies run along libertarian socialist principles, its all quite nice really.





(Edited by Som at 5:12 am on Mar. 15, 2003)

[Ian]

Democratic Socialism is a term that is quite empty, obviously DS's are democratic as well as socialist but you need to read thier party program if you want to know about these people, most of them you will find are quite Marxist.

[Umoja]

Only huge difference between a DS and a Democratic Marxist, is that most Democratic Socialist believe they can bring about change in the current system without a violent revolution, by moving in small steps. Unfortunately this theory was hampered after WWII.

[antieverything]

Many DS organizations haven't simply abandoned revolutionary ideas...they just believe that the repression of a non-violent, democratic revolution will trigger a popular (e.g. not vanguardist), possibly violent revolution...sort of like the counter-coup in Venezuela.