Strategy & Tactics

To win socialism, the working class needs political independence. Socialists today should use elections and other political campaigns to help build organization.

How we as socialists should evaluate a demand, campaign, or objective. The key question: does it build working-class power?

A separate ballot line for socialists would draw a sharper line between us and liberals. It’s an important tool we’ll need eventually.

How can DSA organize most effectively to support the movement for Black lives?

The successes and limitations of Bernie Sanders’s campaigns showed why we need a working-class party to extend and deepen what the campaign achieved.

The Left cannot roll the clock back to 2015 and ignore elections. Rank-and-file labor work, movement building, and class-struggle campaigns are a key part of our strategy.

We may see a new round of capital consolidation and a powerful mobilization on the far right. Or a radicalized working class movement can prevail in shaping the new economy.

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.

Many progressives fail to distinguish between the politics of class struggle and class compromise. That’s why it’s important that candidates DSA endorses get behind Bernie Sanders and his vision of building a working-class movement.