B.J. Eversole (Full Name: Bige Eversole, Jr.; born March 12, 1980) was elected State Chair of the Socialist Party of North Carolina, the North Carolina affiliate of the Socialist Party USA, at their convention of November 13, 2004.

Eversole is a non-Marxist democratic socialist. He believes the ideal path to a full socialist society should include a transitionary, social democratic mixed economy. He views past revolutions such as those in Russia and Cuba as failures due to attempts at rapid transformation of the economy as well as a lack of democracy, which he views as a requirement for genuine socialism.

While some critics charge Socialist and Green parties alike, in the United States, with sometimes spoiling elections against the Democrats and in favour of the Republicans, Eversole showed at least relative support for the Democratic candidates in the first two, close presidential elections of the twenty-first century. In a November 2000 Usenet post, he described spending the night of the 2000 Presidential election with "a house full of Greens... pulling for Gore" to defeat George W. Bush. He shared this sentiment, and called for "all necessary steps... to ensure that the will of the voters of Palm Beach County, and therefore Florida and the nation, is expressed" [1141].

In his introductory letter to his party's membership after his election in 2004, and after the 2004 presidential election, he wrote that the party was continuing to grow, "despite the general trend amongst members of the left to rally behind the candidacy of John Kerry to defeat George W. Bush; to be honest, I allowed myself to be drawn away from the party in order to see Bush defeated, but I am back and here to stay."

He called for his party to organize against the death penalty, for labor rights, and against the war in Iraq, to work with other parties to ease ballot access laws, and to run candidates for U.S. Senator and Governor of North Carolina in 2008. He called for attention to fundraising, and to growing the party's membership and prominence.

He is also a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a native of Oak Island, North Carolina.

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Socialist Party of North Carolina

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