Does this part sound familiar? “With a government by, for, and of the working class and with powerful labor unions and social movements organizing in every city and town, we hope to build a socialist society”.
If it doesn’t sound familiar, let’s have a look at the Stalin era 1936 Constitution of the USSR.
ARTICLE 1. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist state of workers and peasants.
ARTICLE 2. The Soviets of Working People’s Deputies, which grew and attained strength as a result of the overthrow of the landlords and capitalists and the achievement of the dictatorship of the proletariat, constitute the political foundation of the U.S.S.R.
ARTICLE 3. In the U.S.S.R. all power belongs to the working people of town and country as represented by the Soviets of Working People’s Deputies.
ARTICLE 4. The socialist system of economy and the socialist ownership of the means and instruments of production, firmly established as a result of the abolition of the capitalist system of economy, the abrogation of private ownership of the means and instruments of production and the abolition of the exploitation of man by man, constitute the economic foundation of the U.S.S.R.
You can safely assume that the DSA Constitution will be an updated version of this sort of thing, eliminating private property and ‘democracy’ while replacing it with ‘Soviets’ style democracy. Except they’ll call it Stakeholder democracy and it’s already common on the Left. There were of course lots of ‘rights’ in the Soviet constitution and they were all fictional and worthless when push came to shove.
This was the only ‘right’ that mattered. “The right to work is ensured by the socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of economic crises, and the abolition of unemployment.”
And this is the DSA vision.
