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The DSA thesis is called the "dirty break" which is the majority position. It means building and planning for a break from the Democratic Party. DSA has realignment advocates who want to move the democrats left. This is a popular position, especially among new people, but it is a clear minority. there used to be a lot of "clean break" tendencies, they fizzled out because their analysis quickly proved tdid,e irrelevant.
DSA is preparing for a break from the dems, the majority is very strongly against the democrats. But social movements are uneven and combined. The democrats dont have any mechanism for enforcing party discipline, they can't actually ban DSA members from registering as a democrat. They can pull some dirty tricks, and in some places they can prevent people from running on the democratic party line. But elections are handled on the state level, so the rules are different everywhere.
They can block action politically, but they can't do shit if they are out-organized. There are successes like Zohran Mamdani, but there are failures like when Las Vegas DSA took over the Nevada democratic central committee, and the party just moved all the money out of the accounts and shut them out of politics altogether.
Flattening DSA into an org with a singular perspective is a wildly incorrect way to view us. We are a democratic org, we have minority and majority positions, anyone can propose a change to the org, and in some ways, participating in DSA means struggling to change it. The Dem party realignment advocates, reflective of the original org but changed dramatically since 2015, are a minority but they also make up the largest tendency in NYC DSA, the largest and most electorally successful chapter in the USA.
There are now over 100000 members in good standing, and growing. DSA is committed to becoming the worker's party, we actually passed a resolution to that effect in 2025. Imo, we are THE primary vehicle for class struggle against capitalism. That doesn't mean we are perfect or have it all figured out. Its a mess, the org shouldn't function, and yet we do.
Everyone in the org knows that the dems will kick us out where they can, but where they haven't shows where they actually can't. If youve never tried to enforce party discipline or expulsion conditions where there previously wasnt any, it's very difficult. People really don't like it. Expelling DSA would be a boon for DSA imo, and the Democratic party knows this. They would never win another big election if they did, and would instantly create the largest USAmerican socialist party of all time.