12/28/2015, 5:54 pm
DSA CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS
(as amended by the 2001 National Convention)
CONSTITUTION
Article I. Name
The name of this organization shall be the Democratic Socialists of America, a not-for-profit corporation.
Article II. Purpose
We are socialists because we reject an economic order based on private profit, alienated labor, gross inequalities of wealth and power, discrimination based on race and sex, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo. We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships. We are socialists because we are developing a concrete strategy for achieving that vision, for building a majority movement that will make democratic socialism a reality in America. We believe that such a strategy must acknowledge the class structure of American society and that this class structure means that there is a basic conflict of interest between those sectors with enormous economic power and the vast majority of the population.
DSA Constitution
When all resources and production are owned as a commons by everyone equally and are all democratically planned and controlled through the voting process we will have peace and harmony as there will be no alienated labor, gross inequalities of wealth and power, discrimination, or brutality and violence in defense of the status quo. Everyone will be on the same page. You can believe that no one, absolutely no one, will put together powerful blocks of self-interested persons scrambling for power through the democratic process. After all, the prize would only be everything.You can bet this system of government won't break down in a eat-or-be-eaten struggle over political power of the property-less jungle.
But, if it does break down there will be no one to blame but ourselves. It's Democratic Socialism. Democratic Socialism means there's no one to blame for the failure of democratic socialism but you, the voters.
This is truly a new innovation in socialism.
