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The Debt Will Come Due
”[W]hen we consider the immense debt that we and our littermates in the first-world pigsty owe to the world’s oppressed majority, it is terror, not guilt, we should feel—one way or another, the debt will come due.” →
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Be Like Joseph Vaughn, Even Though Furman Doesn’t Want You To
“ Furman doesn’t want its students to follow in Joseph Vaughn’s footsteps, no matter how many statues, plazas, awards, and days of remembrance it dedicates in an attempt to claim otherwise.” →
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Glory to the Martyrs, from Memphis to Maghazi
Ritual abuse of the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. is such a cherished tradition in America that we have an entire holiday set aside for it. Every year for decades now, public figures and institutions who stand against the living movement that gave us Dr. King—including many who actively opposed him in his own… →
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Night and Day
This Tuesday, Furman YDSA and five other organizations released a joint open letter to the Furman administration and Board of Trustees demanding concrete action in solidarity with Palestine against the ongoing Israeli genocide. The signatory organizations—YDSA, the Furman Middle East and North Africa club, Afrikiya, the Furman International Student Association, the Environmental Action Group, and… →
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No excuses, no apologies! DSA Must Hold The Line
If the events of the past two weeks are anything to go by, we will have the good fortune of outliving the state of Israel—but no rabid dog dies without a fight. On the night of October 17th, the Israeli Air Force bombed a hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing somewhere between 500 and one… →
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Defend Affirmative Action, Demand A Better World
On Thursday, June 29th, the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action on the basis of race to be unconstitutional.The exact proscriptions of the ruling are narrow, applying mainly to the practice of curving standardized test scores, but the true consequence of SFFA v. Harvard is that it provides favorable terrain for the anti-affirmative action movement to continue… →
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Report on the 2023 National Convention
From August 1st through August 3rd, I represented our chapter at YDSA’s national convention in Chicago. Held annually, the national convention is the highest authority in YDSA, charged with resolving political questions within the organization, electing the national leadership, allocating resources to various projects, and setting priorities for the coming year. This year, roughly 150… →
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A Brief History of the General Strike
The socialist left has a long and storied romance with the idea of the general strike, also known as the mass strike. The basic premise is that capitalist society survives only by the continued participation of the working class, and therefore if a critical mass of workers across industries were to cease work all at… →
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America’s True Revolution
On this day 162 years ago, in this very state, the white slaveowner and state senator Edmund Ruffin fired the first shot of the Civil War against Union troops occupying Fort Sumter. In so doing, he unwittingly ignited one of the greatest revolutionary firestorms in world history, and indeed the only true social revolution in… →