My response to “An Open Letter to Maria Svart”

Debra Keefer Ramage
1 min readJul 8, 2021

I am pretty late to this party. On May 22, 2021, David North of World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) published this open letter to Maria Svart, National Director of Democratic Socialists of America. (Please read it first if you haven’t already, for context.)

This is my response:

You all know I love DSA. But even those we love make big mistakes. This is a valid criticism and I am unable to defend people who celebrate the assassination of Trotsky. I also often correct those who sanctify Trotsky, or, as recently happened on Facebook…

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Debra Keefer Ramage

Grandmother, socialist, dual citizen. Member of Twin Cities DSA since 1986. More: https://linktr.ee/debrakeeferramage