A new left is emerging in the United States. The explosive growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which has now reached thirty thousand members, marks the rebirth of socialist politics and organization — one we have not seen since the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Today, we have an opportunity to build a democratically organized, multi-tendency political organization capable of popularizing socialism and training thousands of new radicals as political militants. The DSA’s expansion over the past few months represents the first time in over forty years that the emergence of a mass socialist organization has become a real possibility. This revival demands new discussions of strategy.

In a recent essay, Joseph M. Schwartz and Bhaskar Sunkara, two leading DSA members, propose a strategy to once again make socialism a mass presence in the United States. All socialists should agree with much of their vision.