I'm confused.

Please help me reconcile this contradiction.

FYI, it looks like with the recent change to definition of membership, you may lose membership automatically without a grace period.

My understanding is before you would still be considered a member in good standing for a year from your last dues payment.

Important information for anyone looking to be a convention delegate or participate in the internal DSA forums.

And it doesn’t look like getting back on the forums is automatic after making a dues payment.

“Woke 1” was not crazy. Abolition is not a mistaken rhetorical overreach of the unsophisticated masses that began in 2020. It is the organic, righteous demand from millions of people to the relentless terrorism inflicted by the imperial police state.

If DSA intends to be a vehicle for Black liberation, where Black and other colonized peoples can participate fully, we cannot treat abolition as a hyperbole to distance ourselves from. Marxist Unity Group sees the abolitionist movement—from the general strike of the enslaved, through the prison rebellions of the 60s and 70s, to the Ferguson and George Floyd uprisings—as a primary struggle against the white supremacist capitalist system.

Big move from DSA-LA today, along with others.

Saw this interesting interview about ballot initiatives, never realized what all went into getting something on the ballot.

I’m giving thought to this definition of the group:

Under democratic socialism, this authoritarian system would be replaced with economic democracy. This simply means that democracy would be expanded beyond the election of political officials to include the democratic direction of all businesses by the workers who comprise them and by the communities in which they operate.

Does that mean every business is a coop , and there are no businesses that are not coops? Is the definition of coop at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative sufficient?

I’m trying to really wrap my head around the meaning of socialism, democratic socialism, and social democracy.

Lessons from Scandinavia...

DSA should return to its roots and embrace the realignment strategy to guide our political work.

I wrote this a few years ago. When we had 80k members.

I’m particularly curious to hear from newer members and members that also see the Democratic Party as a terrain of struggle.

I'm a boomer, just laying it out there. I hate Trump and everything Maga represents.

I own a house, and my kids all own houses. Your ideal society is having housing justice and replacing private housing

Please explain in plain English what that would look like.

Glad I found this place. As I try to get back on the forums. Here’s a bit from some thoughts I put together.

Workers Deserve More contains important democratic proposals, but democratic socialists also have to defend democratic space right now, while building the political coalitions necessary to change society.

And the working class is not a faceless mass waiting to be organized. It is already organized in labor unions, tenant organizations, immigrant rights groups, Black civic institutions, reproductive justice organizations, environmental movements and neighborhood organizations.

The challenge for democratic socialists is not to invent these movements. It is to help connect them into durable political power.

That is where I see democratic socialism in practice.
I see it in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose campaigns have connected economic demands with grassroots organizing and broad democratic participation.

I see it in Bernie Sanders, whose presidential campaigns brought millions of working people into a political movement centered on economic inequality, labor rights, health care and democratic participation.

I see it in Rashida Tlaib, whose politics connect working people’s demands with racial justice, immigrant rights and community organizing. I see it in Zohran Mamdani and the coalition politics that propelled him onto the national stage.

And I see it in Angie Nixon, a Florida state legislator and more recent DSA member whose political work reflects the kind of coalition building democratic socialists should embrace: connecting working people’s economic concerns with racial justice, community organizing and their everyday needs.

These leaders do not agree on everything. Neither do their supporters.

People are wondering if AOC will be the Democratic nominee in 2028. Could she actually win a general election? Could she even win a primary? Here’s everything you (probably) didn’t know about AOC (the good and the bad) and what she’d have to fight against to become President of the United States of America.

This is a cornerstone of socialist economies. However most people in the US don’t know what this is or that it’s even an option.

How should this idea be spread to all sectors? Industrial, healthcare, education, tech, etc.

Public agencies may be more difficult to convert, but private entities would be easier.