That was the post-election assessment from the Democratic Socialists of America, which backed 40 winning candidates at the state, county and municipal levels. As of Friday, 11 of this year's winning candidates had been endorsed by the national DSA organization, and 29 others had been endorsed by local chapters.
DSA’s biggest successes, undoubtedly, were the Congressional elections of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
This year’s midterm elections saw “the rebirth of the American socialist movement after generations in retreat.”
That was the post-election assessment from the Democratic Socialists of America, which backed 40 winning candidates at the state, county and municipal levels. As of Friday, 11 of this year's winning candidates had been endorsed by the national DSA organization, and 29 others had been endorsed by local chapters.
“Each of these candidates ran against corporate-backed Republican or Democratic political establishments on inspiring platforms demanding an end to austerity and oppression,” the group said in a statement on Wednesday. “We are building a pipeline from local positions all the way to national politics.”
DSA’s biggest successes, undoubtedly, were the Congressional elections of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
That was the post-election assessment from the Democratic Socialists of America, which backed 40 winning candidates at the state, county and municipal levels. As of Friday, 11 of this year's winning candidates had been endorsed by the national DSA organization, and 29 others had been endorsed by local chapters.
“Each of these candidates ran against corporate-backed Republican or Democratic political establishments on inspiring platforms demanding an end to austerity and oppression,” the group said in a statement on Wednesday. “We are building a pipeline from local positions all the way to national politics.”
DSA’s biggest successes, undoubtedly, were the Congressional elections of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
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Socialism, as originally used by the followers of Robert Owen, appeared for the first time in their Co-operative Magazine of November 1827 and meant common ownership. Later, in 1875, at the first meeting of the German Social Democratic Party Eduard Bernstein. and others claimed that the capitalism could be be reformed to meet working class interests, By championing gradual, ethically-inspired reforms they rejected socialism's revolutionary and materialist foundations. The DSA, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Bernie Sanders are better defined as social democrats.
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