Technocracy

A troubling new technology risks deteriorating working conditions for working artists.

Brief coverage of an anti-Amazon rally held on Black Friday.

How Arlington rebranded Reaganomics as “diversity.”

Gains the Mayor has made in improving DC’s public education system have been undermined by a callous approach to workers, funding mismanagement, and a disregard for transparency and open communication.

Without a guarantee of healthful food to all, we will be unable to move forward or effectively organize any form of alternative to capitalism.

How equitably can federal funds be released for infrastructure? It depends on how skilled local and state governments are at scooping up and managing those funds.

An inventive new book uses a technology lens to show how the automobile took over culture, with capitalism guiding events at every turn

District educators should consider abandoning pay-systems that reproduce competition and inequity in the workplace.

It's not as daunting as it looks.

An (admittedly old-fashioned) MDC DSA member outlines his skepticism about podcasts. Does the history of peasant rebellions in the 16th century provide clues to their value?

A marxist analysis of Biden's signature infrastructure bill.

The estate of Dr. Seuss was justified in ceasing the publications of several of his books. His legacy should be viewed against the entirety of his life’s (rather progressive) work.

Modern monetary theory: what it is, where it comes from, who supports it, and how to separate the economic theory from political rhetoric.

A labor contingent in PG County reviewed organizing efforts at Amazon and eco-socialist organizing around the PRO Act.

The growing threat of fascism will require deeper attention paid to administrative security.

An annotated discussion on capitalism and virtual realities with the creators of Preserving Worlds.

Building a policy platform based on oppositional politics risks putting the working-class in bed with otherwise hostile interests.

Local socialists have been quietly building out an anti-capitalist technical operation for use by the DC-area left. Its impetus and activities are outlined here.

Adapting to life in the time of permanent biohazard is going to require permanent lifestyle and behavior changes, and we really don’t know which changes will be more or less pleasant and which ones not.

Automation provides the left an opportunity to mobilize socialism in the post-pandemic era.

While Facebook is currently embroiled in a controversy over whether it’s wrong for it to allow Trump’s political advertising that contains naked lies, the debate over fully or partially nationalizing the platform has gotten much less coverage.

After Arlington County's vote, “For Us, Not Amazon” coalition will refocus around the issues we learned were the foremost concerns in the community.

Pete Buttigieg and Howard Shultz are part of a larger phenomenon in U.S. cultural discourse that privileges a set of experiences and traits that are interpreted as merit, beyond any real policy value that a candidate brings to public debate.

With only two weeks to go before the Arlington County Board is set to vote on its $23 million incentive package for Amazon, the fight is more important than ever, and there are plenty of opportunities for comrades to get involved.

In the fast-changing world of automation trending toward AI, tech workers could find themselves in the same boat as other workers sooner than they think.

A community forum held in Crystal City/Arlington showed that many NoVA residents are worried about the impact that Amazon will have on their home towns.

As a corporation, Amazon’s interests begin and end with their own wealth and influence. Any promises of corporate responsibility or community benefit not nailed down in ironclad legal contracts should be considered empty.

Education is a basic concern of the AFL-CIO. Millennial workers share this focus as one presenter noted that 50 percent of younger workers already have associate degrees or more.

Our local leaders have shown time and again that they are unable and unwilling to fight for what's best for the marginalized in our region

Last week, the DC Office of Planning (OP) released their first update in months, and unfortunately, it goes completely off-script from the process they laid out, putting those of us who care about housing, economic, and environmental justice in a tough spot.

A useful intercity rail system is in reach for Maryland if it defers the maglev and hyperloop dreams in favor of the needs of today's travelers.

ATC privatization has been prevented for now, but privatization has powerful backers who aren't ready to quit after 30 years of trying, and it is likely to be resuscitated in the near future.

How do socialists breach capitalism? Smucker's how-to provides some guidance.

A lengthy recollection of DSA's engagement in the People's Climate March - and the panel we hosted before it.

The weekend of May 19th-21st, CWA workers at AT&T Mobility went on one of the largest retail worker strikes in U.S. history.

Getting money out of politics doesn't change the structures and institutions within which politicians operate.

Local socialists join a united effort to push the DC government to pay stronger attention to investment policy.

Carbon taxes are not every environmentalist's cuppa tea.

Interest in a universal basic income (UBI) appears to be rising alongside a widespread sense that we are nearing the end of work. Two examples show what this sort of plan might look like.

There is a wall of resistance to Trump and his agenda that will be difficult to break. Tim Snyder's review helps us build out a resistance strategy built for the long-term.

The Federal Communications Commission in Trumpland is allowing big telcom companies to sell more of your personal data.

As the nature of work becomes fundamentally upended by creative (and labor-abusing) technological-capital formations, novel perspectives are needed to combat these new modes of capitalist extraction.

Trump's taking of the White House offered the possibility of shattering liberals' illusions of the neutrality of the state

The big problems that plague our society can only be solved with an effort that matches the size of their danger.

In 1948, a socialist program was able to take hold in Wisconsin -- until the ascendance of neoliberalism began to peel back left-wing municipal planning.

Kashkari, in introducing his proposal, stated that before Congress approved the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill during the Obama administration, the risks of the U.S. suffering from another big banking crisis amounted to some 84 percent. The enactment of Dodd-Frank significantly reduced such risk to just 67 percent, Kashkari added. But this is still much too high, especially given the ability of major financial crises to cause trillions of dollars in losses to the U.S. economy and the world.

Some analysts think Trump's clawback scheme could yield big stock buybacks but little capital investment.