By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


The DSA: Misfits, Marxists, Maoists and more

Sometimes I feel like a Fox News daddy when I spout off too much against the Democratic Socialists of America. But I’m actually more like a disgusted James Carville when it comes to the DSA. They really are a ‘pack of fools.’ But as this WSJ piece makes clear, they’re a far more far-lefty pack of fools than I ever imagined. The WSJ provides a breakdown of the officially sanctioned “caucuses” that control the DSA’s National Political Committee. There’s the somewhat sane Socialist Majority Caucus that basically represents all the Zohran Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders types on the progressive far left. There are also caucuses representing the old Michael Harrington wing of the DSA etc. But the majority of the DSA’s party leaders and/or caucuses are flat-out, self-described Marxists, as the WSJ shows. They include Bread & Roses, Communist Caucus, Marxist Unity Group, Spring of Revolution (a hard-core anti-Israel group), Red Star, Liberation Caucus (Maoists) and Caracol Caucus (‘Eco-Marxist champions’). Combined these radical groups control a clear majority of the governing board of the DSA.

And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just recently renewed her membership in the DSA? Good grief.

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