Radio Socialist Olympia

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, the

In this episode, Isaac speaks again with Mike Hines, President of the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 367, which represents about 8,000 grocery and retail workers in Southwest Washington. They discuss events in the union since their latest contract went into effect, staffing cuts in the stores and the union’s response, state and local legislative efforts, and the st

Welcome to the fourth, and long-awaited (we hope) episode of Why We're Socialists, and Not Liberals. In this episode we discuss why a liberalism is simply not up to the job of responding to the far right, and why a left-wing approach is needed, and what that would look like. This is an especially theory-heavy episode in which we explore the philosophical underpinnings of far right

My comrade from DSA Isaac Wagnitz and I are proud to share with you our latest episode of Radio Socialist Olympia. We're extending our break here from the Why We're Socialists series to interview Billie and Nora, two of the Starbucks workers and union organizers behind the successful union campaign at the Cooper Point Starbucks in Westside Olympia. Note: we mention the Tumwater Sta

My comrade from DSA Isaac Wagnitz and I are proud to share with you our latest episode of Radio Socialist Olympia. We're taking a break here from the Why We're Socialists series to interview Michael Hines, president of UFCW 367, which represents around 8,000 grocery workers in the South Puget Sound area. I couldn't make it to record this episode, so it'll just be Isaac asking the q

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-cycl

This is the second part of our series on why we're socialist and not liberals. In this episode we give a broad overview of the historical development of liberalism and socialism as ideologies, and then use that to explain how each is a product of their respective historical and material contexts. We also compare and contrast the two ideologies and attempt to show how socialism is a

This is the first episode in a new series we're calling "Why we're socialists (and not liberals)." In it we give definitions of liberalism and socialism, broad overviews of the philosophical and ideological distinctions between the two, and explain what motivated us to start this new series. we hope you enjoy it and find it educational.