Posted on 08/02/2026 12:35:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
At a national summit of the Democratic Socialists of America, nervous energy and a sprawling tableau of sometimes-competing interests were on display.
The democratic socialists packed into a dive bar on Chicago’s South Side were in a bubbly mood after the first day of their national summit. Hayley Banyai-Becker, a 31-year-old from Portland, Ore., stood on a chair to rally fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America to stay on “the front lines of class struggle.”
But there was a problem: None of them could hear her.
“Did they just turn the music up?” Ms. Banyai-Becker called out, over the thump of angry rock.
“Scream louder!” a D.S.A. member said.
“Should we go up one by one and tell them to turn the music down?” asked another.
“Let’s organize!” said a third.
“We’re going to resume after we talk to the owner,” Ms. Banyai-Becker said, heading off to confront the bar’s proprietors, who also happened to be members of the local D.S.A.
If it’s true that a hammer finds nails everywhere it looks, it can also be said that the Democratic Socialists of America, even in the midst of a raucous party, will find a reason to fight.
On the heels of high-profile primary wins, it might seem that a national gathering of nearly 500 members of the D.S.A. — the country’s largest socialist organization — would feel ecstatic, like a summer camp social for 20-somethings who bewilderingly found themselves beating Democratic Party mainstays and finagling the keys to New York’s City Hall.
But as D.S.A. members gathered for sessions such as “Building Working Class Solidarity,” ecstasy was not the dominant sentiment. It was more like nervous fervor, jittery anticipation, the thudding knowledge that everything they’re looking to do — run a candidate for president in 2028,...
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Hitler-ish.
Class struggle. Class is almost a nonissue in the US. People can move up by education, work, moving into a better neighborhood, etc. Class implies you’re just stuck there, as you are in many European countries. The only time I had “class” issues was when dealing with Europeans. A CEO of a European company will treat an American engineer so badly it’s insulting.
A Brit told me about working for a couple of “lords” with titles. He said you could feel the class difference by the way they treated him, compared with others. I never saw any Americans doing what he described.
“class struggle” i.e., they’re commies.
They aren’t concerned about agreeing on anything except getting rid of Constitutional government. When/if they take control, they’ll just dispose of any opposition through jail or murder.
Ala Khmer Rouge/Killing Fields.
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