
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 with it the stigma it once did.
Young socialists have been getting organized on campus, especially since Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ran for president in 2016.