What are the differences between DSA and SDA?
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was founded in 1982 from the merger of the New American Movement and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, with the purpose of realigning the Democratic Party.
SDA was born from the 2017 Chicago DSA convention, when DSA membership voted on a resolution to leave the Socialist International, later precipitating alignment in 2021 with the São Paulo Forum and in 2023 with Bernie’s Progressive International.
SDA was officially incorporated in 2021 as a 501(c)4 in Saint Joseph, MO, to educate Americans on the Socialist International’s values of Socialism, as adopted by Socialist parties in June 1989 in Stockholm: https://www.socialistinternational.org/about-us/declaration-of-principles.
As time passed, DSA members and the Progressive International decided to align with a Communist or far-right vision of Socialism. That vision of Socialism has never been approved by Socialist voters, as 75% of the membership in 1920 left the Socialist movement to create a different socialism inspired by Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
SDA is the Socialist faction inside the Democratic Party and was created to educate Democrats on the historical differences between Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism.
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