Democratic Socialists of America & Libertarian Socialism

1983 Debate from the Workers Solidarity Alliance magazine "ideas & action" on whether or not anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian socialists should participate in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

From issue # 3, Spring 1983

- Intro: Bureaucratic Utopianism? by Tom Wetzel

- DSA & Libertarian Socialism by Chris N.

- Altered States by Dennis H.

- To the Ballot Box! [temporarily of course] by Manuel S.

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