DSA Claims To Champion Minorities, Is Mostly White, Affluent

The Problem With Middle-Class Socialism

The Democratic Socialists of America are all about fighting for the working class—even though few of them are actually working class. What would George Orwell say?

DSA Claims To Champion Minorities, Is Mostly White, Affluent

The Democratic Socialists of America claim to speak for the working poor and minority communities, but a close look at membership, tactics, and results shows a very different reality: a largely white, well-off activist class pushing policies that often harm the people they claim to defend. This piece peels back the rhetoric and lays out how a movement’s self-confidence, demographics, and policy choices collide with the real world in ways that ma…

I Was in the DSA. Here’s What They Really Believe.

Candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) keep racking up primary victories, and skeptics and fans alike are struggling to determine what the organization actually believes. President Donald Trump says they are “communists.” One prominent DSA member, Jacobin publisher Bhaskar Sunkara, says they are a “milquetoast organization” seeking Scandinavian social democracy, with no interest in violent revolution.I was a member of th…