The Rose Outlook

“History is ours, and it is made by the people.”

Salvador Allende

Introductory: Socialism 101

• Albert Einstein, “Why Socialism?”
• Multiple authors, “The ABC’s of Socialism”
• Neal Meyer, “What Is Democratic Socialism?”

Capitalism

• Michael McCarthy, “Seven Theses on the Capitalist Democratic State”
• Brendan Cooney, “Consume!”
• David Harvey, “A Brief History of Neoliberalism”
• Chris Maisano, “The Constitution and the Class Struggle”

The Labor Movement and Organization

• Ben Tarnoff, “Building Socialism from Below: Popular Power and the State”
• Eduard Bernstein, “Karl Marx and Social Reform”
• Meagan Day, “Billionaire Bureaucrats”
• Friedrich Engels, “On Authority”

Fighting Fascism

• Robert Paxton, “Anatomy of Fascism”

Fighting Racism

• Brian Jones, “Martin Luther King’s Revolution”
• Paul Heideman, “Socialism and Black Oppression”
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Martin Luther King Jr’s Radical Anti-Capitalism”
• Eric Blanc and Jeremy Gong, “How Class Should Be Central”
• Briahna Gray, “Beware the Race Reductionist”
• Eric Blanc, “Never Trust a Billionaire’s Antiracism”

Endorsed Organizations, Subreddits, and Reading Lists

Organizations

• The Democratic Socialists of America
• Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Jacobin (magazine)
• Marxists Internet Archive (encyclopedia)

Subreddits

• r/DemocraticSocialism
• r/IronFrontUSA
• r/50501 (possibly compromised, original founder was ousted I believe)
• r/50501movement (re-founded by one of the original moderators)
• r/Socialism_101
• r/DankLeft
• r/Political_Revolution
• r/socialism
• r/SocialDemocracy

Reading Lists

• r/DemocraticSocialism Wiki: Marxist Reading List
• r/Socialism_101 Wiki: A Guide to Socialist Theory
• r/socialism Wiki: Starterpack