Name: RSO Ep02 - The 2020 Election by Radio Socialist Olympia
Duration: 1 h 22 min 34 s
Description: We don't have a regular episode for you this time. This is a recording of a discussion that took place on October 9th, 2020 on what the US Presidential election means for socialists. We hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to the third episode of Why We're Socialists (and not Liberals). In this episode we go discuss ultraleftism, where it came from, and what to do about it. As we will continue to do, we have included our sources so you can read them for yourself.

The Liberal to Ultraleft Pipeline, Patrick Dalton, 2021 https://washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org/ws-articles/21-03-breaking-the-cycle 

Liberalism, Ultraleftism, or Mass Action? Peter Camejo, 1970
https://www.marxists.org/archive/camejo/1970/ultraleftismormassaction.htm 

Anatomy of the Micro-Sect, Hal Draper, 1973
https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm 	
Left-wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder, Lenin, 1920 https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/lenin/index.htm 

Exiting the Vampire Castle, Mark Fisher, 2013
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/
 
Ultraliberalism: The Dominant Tendency of the American Left, Ramsin Canon, 2022 https://midwestsocialist.com/2022/02/07/ultraliberalism-the-dominant-tendency-of-the-american-left/ 

You Can’t Fake It, by Alex Gourevitch, Current Moment and Jacobin, 2017
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/02/general-strike-donald-trump-womens-march-immigration-ban-ludlow-strike 

1947 Taft-Hartley Substantive Provisions, National Labor Relations Board https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/who-we-are/our-history/1947-taft-hartley-substantive-provisions

#2: Amendment to Resolution #5 – Building Worker Power to Win Democratic Socialism: A Labor Strategy for DSA in 2021-2023, Socialist Alternative. https://convention2021.dsausa.org/secondary-amendments-to-resolutions/#P1D  

Related reading

The Poisoned Chalice of Hashtag Activism, Amber A'lee Frost, Catalyst https://catalyst-journal.com/2020/09/the-poisoned-chalice-of-hashtag-activism

NGOism: The Politics of the Third Sector, Benjamin Y. Fong and Melissa Naschek https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/05/ngoism-the-politics-of-the-third-sector

Why we're socialists (and not liberals): Part 3, Ultraleftism

In this episode, Isaac talks with Syd Locke, longtime Olympia DSA member and our endorsed candidate for the Washington State House of Representatives for 2024. They discuss Syd's campaign, DSA's approach to electoral politics, the current political moment in our country, and what our tasks will be going forward.

Note from Isaac: Apologies for the audio quality in this episode, there was some background noise in the recording that I couldn't account for, and filtering that out also made our voices sound a bit muffled and produced some odd artifacts. I tried to correct for that, it's still not perfect, but should be clear enough.

Interview with Syd Locke, Candidate for WA LD-22 State Representative

We don't have a regular episode for you this time. This is a recording of a discussion that took place on October 9th, 2020 on what the US Presidential election means for socialists. We hope you enjoy it.

RSO Ep02 - The 2020 Election

This is our second regular episode, in which we interview Jazmine Fox-Stern, the now-outgoing Chair of Olympia DSA's Defund OPD working group. She announced she would not be seeking re-election after we recorded this episode.

RSO Ep02 - The 2020 Election

Radio Socialist Olympia

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