DSA chapters should prioritize building strong socialist electoral apparatuses. Agitating today for an eventual split from the Democratic Party would stunt our power and make the formation of a mass workers’ party less likely.
Bernie lost, but there’s no reason to despair. Our side can win — if we learn the right lessons from Bernie’s campaign.
Let’s recruit an army of new socialist organizers now, and then use that army to get out the vote for Bernie in 2020 and build our movement.
DSA’s labor work should prioritize developing and empowering a growing layer of rank-and-file workers to fight the bosses and transform our unions into militant and democratic vehicles for class struggle and organizing the unorganized.
