It’s socialist thought through and through.
“It’s socialist thought through and through.”
Actually they are communists wrapped in a socialist package.
An excerpt from the above article.
What DSA members believe
Here’s how one socialist sums up his beliefs:
“I think we just need to realize that the end goal is, ultimately, like social control of the means of production,” said Joe Cernelli, a founding member of that West Virginia DSA chapter. “You know we don’t just want to improve capitalism, we will ultimately want to get rid of it.”
That’s not just his idea; the DSA views capitalism as an oppressive system — “We see it as fundamentally undemocratic,” as DSA National Director Maria Svart put it. Here’s how she sums up what the group wants:
“When it comes right down to it, we believe people need to be able to live a dignified life. I mean, there are certain things that should not be left up to the market,” she said.
Removing some parts of the economy from the forces of the free market, for example. In other words, socialism.
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In the DSA’s ideal economy, some sectors — like health care and utilities — would be government-controlled. Other businesses would be worker-owned, as Svart explains it.
“Let’s say you were negotiating at a bargaining table with workers in a bakery, and the workers said, ‘Look, we want more than a quarter of the bread; we want half of the bread, or we want two-thirds of the bread,’ “ she said. “The socialist would say, ‘Actually, we want the bakery. We want to control it all, for all of our benefit.’ “