DSA members say they’re going take over our country with a violent revolution

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DSA members say they’re going take over our country with a violent revolution

“It’s going to be a violent process.”

Believe them when they tell you their plans.

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Official DSA Platform (“Workers Deserve More!”)

DSA’s current program (drafted and approved in 2026) states that complete victory requires “building a new society from the ground up.” Key elements include:

• Winning “the battle for democracy, draft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic.”
• Abolishing the Senate; expanding the House with proportional representation and ranked-choice voting; replacing the two-party system.
• Abolishing the Electoral College.
• Replacing the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary “chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”
• Establishing public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries.
• Steps toward fully abolishing the police and prison system (“abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state”), demilitarizing police, and redirecting funding.
• Abolishing ICE, ending deportations/detention, granting amnesty, legalizing migration without caps/quotas, and extending voting rights more broadly (including to non-citizens/permanent residents in some framings).
• Defunding the Department of War / Pentagon, closing overseas bases, ending foreign wars/aid (notably to Israel), and related foreign-policy shifts.

DSA leaders (including co-chair Megan Romer in a Fox News interview) have publicly affirmed these positions when pressed. Critics across outlets (National Review, Daily Signal, Washington Examiner, City Journal, NY Post, etc.) characterize the platform as a blueprint to dismantle constitutional checks and balances and replace the current republic with a socialist one.

Internal Caucuses and Explicit Revolutionary Language

The Red Star caucus (Marxist-Leninist, with members in national leadership including a co-chair) is more direct:

• Primary goal: “abolish capitalism and, ultimately, to achieve communism.”
• “We do not believe that capitalism can be reformed into socialism – it must be overthrown and replaced.”
• Seeks to “cohere a vanguard party” and build toward a “Revolutionary Situation” (drawing on Leninist concepts).
• Views DSA as a potential incubator for the organizational vehicle needed to exploit systemic crisis for revolutionary ends.

Other DSA-adjacent or internal discussions reference political revolution, seizing state power, class struggle inside and outside the state, and the limits of pure electoralism. Some members and writings treat violence as an expected feature of any serious challenge to capitalist rule (state repression of movements, or the process of transformation itself), consistent with classical Marxist analysis that revolutions are rarely purely peaceful.

Context and Strategy

DSA operates largely through electoral work inside/adjacent to the Democratic Party while building independent organization, labor power, and movements. The stated long-term horizon is structural replacement of the existing order (new constitution, socialist republic, public ownership, abolition of key repressive institutions). Short-term tactics emphasize primaries, organizing, and pushing the Overton window. The viral clip fits a pattern of members candidly describing the process of consolidating power as involving conflict that will not be entirely peaceful.

Primary sources for the platform are available directly on DSA sites (program.dsausa.org). Red Star’s points of unity and related materials are public on their site. Coverage of the platform and leadership statements has been extensive in both mainstream and conservative outlets since mid-2026. The video circulating with the specific “violent process” / “ship of state” language appears to come from an organizer discussion or panel and has been widely shared in the last day.

Sources

The Democratic Socialists’ War on America - The Daily Signal

The Democratic Socialists of America’s Platform Explicitly Aims to Destroy the Constitution - The Daily Signal

Many Democratic Socialist leaders are self-professed communists, DSA caucus statements show - Just The News

Socialists vs. the Senate - National Review

Radical DSA manifesto calls to abolish presidency, US Senate and Electoral College - New York Post

DSA chapter plans ‘Riots and Uprisings’ reading club to study ‘how people struggled’ - Washington Examiner