The Democratic Socialists of America Just Adopted a Radical New Platform

“Workers Deserve More!” emerged from another DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) committee that spent two months grappling with and debating its language. When the NPC (National Political Committee, the DSA’s governing authority) took up the document, its presenter urged the DSA to pass it unamended after it cleared the committee unanimously.Instead, DSA leadership added four amendments: one on “real democracy”—calling for the replacement of “the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress”—another on police and prison abolition, a provision explicitly naming Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, and a ranked-choice...