Here’s what the DSA says about seizing property from landowners. Also, they generally oppose the private ownership of land:
„Redistribution from Landowners: Social housing must first be a redistribution of land from landowners to the landless. This means that social housing cannot simply make housing available and affordable, though it must be both of these things. Social housing must expropriate property from capitalists and deliver it to the working class, through which it may be sustained and rejuvenated. Capitalism requires the private ownership of land, upon which the very possibility of surplus value extraction is based. A definition of social housing must challenge this fundamental relation of the capitalist mode of production.”
housing.dsausa.org
Here is what DSA has to say about law enforcement and public safety — or rather fhe abolishment of both:
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For all of the working class to achieve collective liberation we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state — from prisons and police themselves, to their manifestations in all forms throughout society. Each step forward in reducing the size, power, and authority of the repressive forces of the state expands the space for mass, organized, and collective action of the working class, and clears ground for us to build the institutions of a society to serve our communities with real justice and equality.
We are committed to the horizon of abolition and the path leading us there. Our demands:
- Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero
- End the criminalization of working-class survival
- Freedom for all incarcerated people”
Defund. Abolish. Create. The National Abolition Working Group was formed to create a collective orientation towards abolitionist organizing within DSA and to build meaningful relationships with external organizations committed to the struggle for liberation. We are both building our internal...
www.dsausa.org
My theory is they are „hiding in plain sight” — their public message is about healthcare and making the buses run on time, etc. But they are beholden to a radical base and can’t disavow this shit. Also, they want to be able to say: „look we have been saying this is what we planned all along” when they open the prison gates and seize people’s homes…