Coalition Socialism Coalition Socialism The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights. Unfortunately, this was consistent with the political orientation of DSA’s current national leadership, whose majority is too wary of working in coalition with organizations and movements that are not explicitly socialist. Despite this stubbornly persistent tendency, however, the socialist movement has often been enriched and renewed through engagement with other political traditions and movements. Among its many valuable contributions to the vast literature on Marx and Marxism, Citizen Marx establishes, against critics like Hannah Arendt, how fundamentally political and democratic Marx’s socialism was. In On Revolution, Arendt takes Marx to task for his “obsession with the social question and his unwillingness to pay ...