For 40 years, social democratic parties radically improved life for workers. The labor movement and worker militancy made it possible. After World War II, political parties championing redistribution, ...

Bhaskar Sunkara reflects on the rise, defeat, and possible renewal of socialism — and on the generations of ordinary people who fought to build a world beyond class domination.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's victory made history and drew ire among conservatives as the 34-year-old became the second member of the Democratic Socialists of America to lead the city.

Before 2015, the term “democratic socialism” was foreign to the American political lexicon. It was certainly not cool among the chattering class, to say nothing of the politically powerless. Then, ...

Joshua Muravchik, a former chairman of the Young People’s Socialist League, is author of “Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism.” Ronald Radosh, a former member of Democratic ...

Responding to his critics, Dan La Botz argues that Lenin’s decisions not only proved incapable of defending and advancing a ...