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Democratic Socialists of America

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a social democratic non-profit organization in the United States. It was founded in 1982 out of a merger between the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the New American Movement (NAM).

A key founder was Michael Harrington, an anti-communist social democrat and Zionist[1] with a Catholic social teaching. The DSA held pro-American position in the Cold-War, such as supporting Perestroika[2] and condemning China after the riots in Tianenman Square[3].

The DSA largely remained a tiny and irrelevant social club inside of the Democratic Party until 2015, when Bernie Sanders launched his 2016 presidential campaign. Since then, the DSA has grown into a much larger organization with different caucuses (factions).

Some of these factions include Marxist Unity Group[4], which generally shares similar beliefs to the Cosmonaut[5] blog and the Weekly Worker[6], the publication of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee).

There are also attempts at entryism being lead by groups such as Socialist Alternative, and Socialist Revolution.

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