Here is a list of readings of interest to all DSA members, organized by subject. This list is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to supplement the ideas and perspectives offered in the DSA Momentum Platform, and to offer some guidance to members looking to further their socialist self-education.

Racism, Race, and Class Struggle

• William P. Jones, “Something to Offer”
• Robin D.G. Kelley, “The Black Belt Communists”
• A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, “A ‘Freedom Budget’ for All Americans: A Summary”
• Touré F. Reed, “Why Liberals Separate Race from Class” and “Affirmative Action’s Labor Roots”

Socialist and Labor Feminism

• Eileen Boris and Anelise Orleck, “Feminism and the Labor Movement: A Century of Collaboration and Conflict”
• Johanna Brenner, “The Promise of Socialist Feminism”
• Barbara Ehrenreich, “What is Socialist Feminism?”
• Nancy Fraser, “How Feminism Became Capitalism’s Handmaiden - And How to Reclaim It”
• Nancy Holmstrom, “The Socialist Feminist Project”

Workers, Unions, and the Labor Movement

• Vivek Chibber, “Why the Working Class?”
• Sam Gindin, “Beyond Social Movement Unionism”
• Jane McAlevey, “Everything Old is New Again”
• Chris Maisano, “The Road to Friedrichs”
• Kim Moody, “The State of American Labor” and “Busting the Myths of a Workerless Future”
• Charlie Post, “The Forgotten Militants”

The Dilemmas of Social Democracy

• Robert Brenner, “The Paradox of Social Democracy”
• Peter Frase, “Social Democracy’s Breaking Point”
• Ralph Miliband and Marcel Liebman, “Beyond Social Democracy”

Parties, Elections, and Electoral Strategy

• Seth Ackerman, “A Blueprint For A New Party”
• Walter Dean Burnham, “Democracy in Peril: The American Turnout Problem and the Path to Plutocracy”
• Paul Heideman, “It’s Their Party”
• Neal Meyer, “Electoral Strategy After Bernie’s Campaign”

The Challenge of Socialist Internationalism

• John Bellamy Foster, “Marx and Internationalism”
• Ella Mahony, “Beyond the Socialist International”
• Chris Maisano and Joseph Schwartz, “Which Side are We On? Why DSA Must Leave the Socialist International”

The Politics of the Right

• Johanna Brenner and Robert Brenner, “Reagan, the Right, and the Working Class”
• Stephanie Coontz, “Why Women Are Still Voting for Trump, Despite His Misogyny”
• Doug Henwood, “The American Right: From Margins to Mainstream”
• David Kotz, “The Specter of Right-Wing Nationalism”