Socialist Majority Caucus

The Socialist Majority Caucus claims that its strategy is to continue to “run candidates as unapologetic democratic socialists on the Democratic ballot line,” instead of pushing for an immediate break from the Democratic Party.  ²

Background

The Socialist Majority Caucus is a social-democratic caucus within the Democratic Socialists of America. The caucus seeks to build a movement that ultimately culminates in a socialist revolution.  ¹

The Socialist Majority Caucus publishes a blog called The Agitator.  ¹

After the 2025 DSA Convention, the Socialist Majority Caucus had four members on the DSA’s National Political Committee (NPC), which the DSA describes as functionally its 25-person board of directors. For the Socialist Majority Caucus, described as the largest caucus within the DSA, this performance was described as “near total collapse,” according to the socialist publication Working Mass.  ³

Platform

The Socialist Majority Caucus declares a strategy to continue to “run candidates as unapologetic democratic socialists on the Democratic ballot line,” instead of advocating an immediate break from the Democratic Party, as is advocated by other more radical caucuses within the DSA.  ²

The Socialist Majority Caucus claims that the Republican Party is a “historic threat to democracy, racial equality, trans rights and bodily autonomy, and the fundamental rights of all working people.”  ²

The group also advocates for a universal right to health care, child care, and education, and states that one of its objectives “is fighting right-wing attempts to control our bodies and ban trans and reproductive healthcare.”  ²

In November 2025, the NPC of the DSA passed a resolution entitled “DSA Against Authoritarianism,” that was authored and introduced by members of the Socialist Majority Caucus. The resolution condemned the Trump administration and the Supreme Court of “likely” attempting to “commence a new wave of mass voter suppression of People of Color” and claimed that Trump administration was upholding “oligarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, and imperialism.” Moreover, the resolution committed the DSA to participating in various so-called “anti-fascist” protest movements, stating “only socialism can beat fascism.” These commitments included anti-ICE protests, the “No Kings” movement, and a proposed May Day 2028 general strike.  ⁴

DSA

The Socialist Majority Caucus is composed of members of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America, a political advocacy organization that claims to have over 80,000 members nationwide.  ⁵

The DSA asserts that the “capitalist economic system is the cause of violence, unemployment, and a climate crisis that poses an existential threat to life on earth.” As part of its platform, the DSA advocates that large businesses should be subject to government ownership and control.  ⁶

The DSA also demands taxpayer-funded public higher education and the cancellation of all student loan debt, an end to the “War on Drugs,” universal government-funded single-payer health care, the abolition of mandatory minimum sentences and cash bail, an end to all economic sanctions including those imposed on Venezuela and Iran, voting rights for noncitizens and those with a criminal conviction, and a reduction of the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review.  ⁶

Furthermore, the DSA advocates increased access to abortions and increased access to sex-change procedures. The group also advocates for unrestricted migration and access to social services for all migrants.  ⁶