Mar 04 2022 46 mins 4
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
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
