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
