DSA's Marxist roots, anti-capitalism platform, and published vision for transforming the American economic system. Documented from DSA's own publications and member statements — in their own words.
DSA members praised Hugo Chavez's socialist government as recently as 2019. The result: 7.7 million refugees — the largest refugee crisis in the Western Hemisphere — from what was once the richest country in South America. Oil-rich Venezuela now has a 76% poverty rate under Maduro's socialist government. Food rationing is standard. Basic medicine is unavailable.
Cuba's socialist system has produced food rationing since 1962, political imprisonment, internet shutdowns, and a mass exodus. Over 1.5 million Cubans fled to the U.S. in 2022-2023 alone — the largest migration wave in Cuban history. The average Cuban earns $30/month. Basic goods are rationed. Dissidents are imprisoned.
North Korean defector Yeonmi Park has testified that American universities now teach the same collectivist ideology she fled. Kim Jong-Un's communist dictatorship produces mass starvation, prison camps for political dissidents, and total information control. An estimated 100,000-200,000 people are held in political prison camps. The state controls every aspect of life.
Convention resolutions, platform documents, member statements, academic papers. Help us build the complete ideological record.