Bigger Than Bernie
How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism

Class Struggle in the 21st Century… Preamble: --For the Democratic Party and their capitalist lobbyists, Bernie was a greater threat than Trump. Now with Trump 2.0, let’s review what alternatives exist. --Bernie ran 2 campaigns for US presidency: i) 2016: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In ii) 2020:......more

A love letter to Bernie and AOC. This book is largely concerned with the socialist movement that gained momentum during the 2016 presidential campaign and continues into 2020. The bulk of the book is about how the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) are gaining strength in numbers and how for the......more

I think this book came at the right time for me, as it got here about a week after Bernie suspended his campaign and I started to wonder about the viability of democratic socialism in our current age/electorate. Add in some pandemic for additional discouragement. The book does a good job answering w......more

Bigger Than Bernie was written before the pandemic and before Biden ultimately won the 2020 election in the US, so it’s a bit weird reading it in 2022 and knowing everything that would come to pass. With that said, even though this book is definitely situated in a specific moment in time, it still h......more

Although this book was drawing from conversations that I and many of my comrades and co-strugglers in and around DSA have had with the authors, and pulls from the same general well of ideas creating the foundation for my politics, never once was it boring or felt like a simple summary; the blend of......more