Revolutionary Power
Revolutionary Power' is a Marxist caucus of Young Democratic Socialists of America. Affiliated with Reform and Revolution.
New Caucus "Revolutionary Power" launched for YDSA’s 2020 Convention 18-Jul-2020By Ruy Martinez, Harvard College YDSA, Kai de Jesus, Harvard College YDSA.
We are happy to publish here the declaration of Revolutionary Power, a new caucus of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA). The formation of this revolutionary socialist current in YDSA is a welcome step towards politicizing and strengthening YDSA and can help to lay the basis for a powerful revolutionary Marxist wing of YDSA and DSA. While we have some political differences with their statement, we are learning a lot from very fruitful discussions with these comrades. We look forward to continuing these discussions and collaboration, with the aim of achieving deeper political agreement on the politics and methods of revolutionary Marxism.
The statement from Revolutionary Power stands out to us for its embrace of revolutionary politics, its support for DSA taking a principled stand in the 2020 presidential elections by endorsing Howie Hawkins or Gloria la Riva, advocating for DSA to actively work towards a Democratic Socialist Party as a step towards a mass workers party, and its efforts to win YDSA to launching a campaign against police brutality and for Black Lives.
We are looking forward to more exchange over how to translate the revolutionary spirit of this statement into a more concrete set of policies and ideas for taking DSA forward. In our view, Marxists need to have an orientation, strategy, and a program to build mass support for our ideas within YDSA and DSA, but also the wider working class. We believe united front methods, a transitional approach that links immediate struggles with a revolutionary strategy, and principled mass work are key elements of Marxist strategy that we look forward to discussing further with the comrades of Revolutionary Power.
-- Reform & Revolution Steering Committee.
Signed,
- Ruy Martinez, Harvard College YDSA
- Kai de Jesus, Harvard College YDSA
- Ben Roberts, Harvard College YDSA
- Piper Winkler, Harvard College YDSA
- RJ Caldwell, Harvard College YDSA
- Richard Merino, Harvard College YDSA
- David Grumbine, University of Arkansas YDSA
- Zachary Lee, University of Arkansas YDSA
- Annemarie Shook, University of Arkansas YDSA
- Pierce McGoran, Kennesaw State University YDSA
- Dustin Junk, University of Texas at Austin YDSA
- Bennett Burke, University of Texas at Austin YDSA
- Joseph Strom, University of Illinois at Chicago YDSA
- Seamus McNamara, University of Illinois at Chicago YDSA
- Matt Chvasta, Vanderbilt YDSA