What Happens on Campus Doesn’t Stay on Campus: Why Socialist Organizing Should Concern Us All

Just last year, the Xavier University student newspaper announced nine new student clubs, including a chapter of the Network of Enlightened Women, which I serve as president. What caught my eye is that the Xavier Socialists Club was started at the same time.

According to the Socialists Club president, the organization is for students interested in “direct action to help correct injustices that result from the oppressive capitalist society that we live in.”

A campus socialist club isn’t an outlier these days. Being part of a socialist club doesn’t carry...