And yes, most people are workers and very few are owners! That is one of the foundational factors in Marxism! We as workers far outnumber them as owners, but they still control the vast majority of wealth and property.

Income is not necessarily tied to class. An athlete can have a large income but still must sell his labor to an owner to survive, unless he becomes an owner through investments or property. Whereas a small businessman with less wealth is still an owner of the means of production.

We maintain a Marxist definition of the working class: anyone who has to sell their labor and time in order to sustain their lives. Unless you live entirely off of capital (stocks, bonds, revenue-generating property, inheritance, or ownership of a business), you are working class.

Here's another, by the same author, about how to maintain party influence over cadre candidates by developing mutual organizational ties:

midwestsocialist.com/2025/10/13/c...

Maintaining electoral discipline is important and it's something we talk about and work on all the time. I recommend this article by a great comrade that was written recently about this very question in reference to Zohran Mamdani:

socialistcall.com/2025/06/22/s...

No, that is not the goal, and that is not something that DSA does. Forming a working-class labor party is a big part of our political work. It is very difficult and requires a lot of work and you could help by joining!

I dunno, but we do!

...yes, I am a white man, what exactly do you think that you are establishing here

Use this link, especially if you're joining in Chicago; I will help you personally any way I can. (Also if you click, it will give me an edge in the Former @chicagodsa.bsky.social Co-Chair Death Match against @acabylonbee.bsky.social). We can fight and win, but only if we are organized. Join us!

I will always be available for honest, good-faith talk about DSA, its strengths, its weaknesses, what it means to me as a communist, and how people can get involved in organizing against the bosses. My DMs are always open. You can e-mail me at my first name dot my last name at g mail dot com.

It's the best way to spend all the extra money everyone definitely has now

It does, though

Our political education section puts on Socialist Night Schools where we discuss socialism openly and honestly. We've gotten huge bumps in attendance since Trump II and a lot of it comes from normal disaffected liberals. Some don't come back, but most do; we had our biggest ever last night.

Where on Earth did you get this statistic, it is not even close to accurate

6,500 new members since we started our fall membership drive!

Sorry the what of what now

If you ever go to a Chicago DSA event I'm at, *please* come say hello to me, you have no idea how much good it does me to know that. Thanks so much to everyone who came, who spoke, and who listened. I appreciate it more than I can say, and I really hope to see you again and that you'll join us.

We had a big, diverse turnout of people from all over the city, around sixty people, many of whom were coming to a @demsocialists.bsky.social event for the first time. It's so heartening to see people take that first step towards organizing for a better world. Really makes all the work worthwhile.