Chapotraphouse

I agree with your concern, and I think it’s important that those contradictions within DSA are sorted out by the active membership which are largely marxists ideologically. They certainly have been coming to fruition more and more frequently as the direction DSA breaks more with its liberal/socdem membership and leans into more principled socialist stances.

I think the lib/socdem DSA served an important role in its time and place as a visible org with enough active socialists that it showed those disillusioned or nascent members of the American left that there was a place to go post-Bernie if you were thinking about taking these things even marginally more seriously. Turns out a lot of people took them very seriously, and that’s what brought us to the points of contradiction within DSA that we see today. It continues to serve that purpose, but as affinity for socialism grows in America in combination with the critical mass of Marxists already within DSA, I’m confident some kind of actual socialist party/org can grow out of DSA if it doesn’t grow into one itself.