The socialist movement is getting younger and turning into a left-wing force [View all]
After Democratic Socialists of America became the largest Marxist organization since World War II, its members broke into song. As Marcus Bennett, an organizer for Britain's left-wing Labour Party, stood up to address the DSA's biggest-ever convention Saturday, scores of the nearly 700 delegates stood up and belted out the name of the party's unapologetic leftist leader.
"Oh, Jeremy Corbyn! Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!" they sang, to the melody of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army." Bennett raised his fist in the air and sang along, dazzled that a Britishsoccer chant had traveled all the way to Chicago.
"We got our Bernie," he said, referring to Corbyn and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. "Don't give up hope. Your time is coming now."
DSA, founded in 1982 to create a political foothold for Marxists, has transformed into an ambitious left-wing force. Membership grew during Sanders' presidential campaign, and then started surging the day after Donald Trump was elected president in what some DSA members jokingly call the "socialist baby boom."
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