Towards Active Revolution: Sects versus the DSA

by P. K. Gandakin

After 2016, the American left entered a new era—but not every organization was capable of meeting it. In the first part of his series Towards Active Revolution, PK Gandakin argues that DSA’s rise, for all of its flaws, can be understood and theorized. It, unlike the sects, aligned with mass socialist and democratic struggle while the sects, leaving aside the concept of mass participation, remained in isolation. The question is not who has the “correct line,” but who is able to put the masses in motion.