Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) - White Supremacy Resurgent!

White supremacy comes in all forms. https://t.co/w4qyN2Lip7

— Donovan Richards Jr. (@DRichardsQNS) July 20, 2026

from Google AI:

Black activists criticized DSA Founder Michael Harrington for prioritizing economic "class-first" socialism over distinct civil rights issues. Prominent leaders argued his approach downplayed systemic anti-Black racism. They also condemned his close ties to labor unions during the 1968 New York City teachers' strike, which pitted white-dominated unions against Black community control initiatives.

Core Criticisms

• Class Reductionism: Critics argued that Harrington’s economic focus on abolishing poverty erased the unique, lived experience of racial discrimination. They felt his framework reduced all Black suffering to economic inequality. 
• Institutional Alliances: Harrington aligned closely with conservative labor leaders. Black activists viewed these unions as barriers that blocked Black Americans from jobs and fair housing. 
• The 1968 Teachers' Strike: During this strike, Harrington supported the teachers' union. Many Black activists viewed the union's actions as a direct assault on Black self-determination in local schools.  

The Core Divide

Harrington believed that racial equality was impossible without first changing the capitalist system. He argued that a multiracial coalition, built primarily around the labor movement, was the only way to achieve lasting social change. 

In contrast, Black activists asserted that racism was deeply woven into American society. They argued that focusing solely on class failed to dismantle the white supremacy that existed in all aspects of daily life.

Historical Perspective

Harrington was a civil rights advocate who marched in the South and worked with Bayard Rustin. However, as the 1960s progressed, the Black Power movement emerged. Activists in this movement increasingly rejected the old socialist strategy of making civil rights wait for a broader economic revolution.  

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr to Michael Harrington, DSA Founder:

"Why, Mike, we never knew we were poor until we read your book."

Blue Collar - 4%

Return of the White Socialist Class Essentialist Vanguard?

...or DSA Succumbing to the Neo-Colonial Identitarianism of the Economically Neo-liberal Democratic Party?

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ps- Unionized Worker Class Essentialism is for suckers!

White Worker B*tches - "Suck it Up"!

Michael Harrington, founder of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was "old" Left.  He was a "Class Essentialist" Marxist of the Catholic Worker Movement (Dorothy Day).  The DSA was a "Class Essentialist" Party of the "old" communist Left.  Most "blacks" of the 50's and 60's were "race essentialists" trying to retain their racial/ cultural identity in a white world born of the "separate but equal" policies preceding Brown v. Board of Education (1954).  When the white and racial essentialist former slave owning and Jim Crow enforcing Democratic Party adopted the black community as a political project during the Civil Rights Movement, the taxonomical classification system advancement of "class" essentialism was abandoned in favor of  a devolution to "race- based" (taxonomical Order based) essentialism.  This was the "split" between old and new Left.  Race/ Order essentialism versus Class essentialism in the KPCOFGS taxonomy and political classification taxonomy.  The "group" that the Democratic Party represented "shrank" on the taxonomical scale.  What was abandoned was the "white" quality component of the former Class essentialist classification grouping.

The Neo-Racist/ Neo-Colonialist White-Shaming of the DSA Begins Today!

from Google AI:

"White shaming" is a social and political term. It describes a tactic where people of European descent are pressured or bullied into feeling guilty for historic or systemic racial injustices. Critics say it forces collective blame on individuals based solely on their race.

To understand "white shaming," it helps to break down two related ideas:

1. White Shame vs. White Guilt

• White Guilt: This is the negative feeling an individual has about their own actions or unearned privileges regarding racism. Think of it like feeling bad for accidentally taking the last slice of pizza you didn't pay for. You take personal responsibility to fix it.
• White Shame: This is a deeper, often paralyzing emotion. It attacks a person's entire identity, making them feel flawed just because of who they are. Think of it like being told you are a bad person for simply existing.

2. The Debate

• The Criticism: Many psychologists argue that shame is counterproductive. When someone feels attacked or bullied, they often get defensive or shut down. Some experts claim "white shaming" causes reverse prejudice and stops real conversations about equality.
• The Perspective: Others, such as those discussed in research on anti-racist education, believe acknowledging historic or systemic pain is necessary. They believe that if individuals can process these uncomfortable feelings without getting defensive, they can work toward a fairer society.

–Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

MAGA Shaming

“the immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to see, refusing to ‘open your eyes’, as the angry black yelled at the post-colonial immigrant. This right to free enterprise is another way to capital accumulation powered by the post-colonial entrepreneur: it produces ‘unfree labour’ and racialized class relations in the name of challenging the colonial rule of difference […] There is a closet Ayn Randian class position underpinning the anti-racism of hyperbolic anti-colonialists – it is then not difficult to see that the non-modern, radical alterity upon which the anti-colonial is premised now stands for the capitalist universal.”

― Slavoj Žižek, "The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously"