Bolshevik Russia and the DSA’s Democrat Party Project, Part II - Ignoring the similarities at our collective peril.

This is the second part of a two-part analysis that examines a specific historical claim: that the decades-long push of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) inside the Democrat Party follows the same “boring from within” logic the Bolsheviks used against the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks in 1917—a small, disciplined vanguard using a broader coalition’s legitimacy and infrastructure to gain position, growing more candid about maximalist goals as it consolidates power, with no intention of remaining merely one faction among many. Part I examined the Bolshevik precedent, the DSA parallel, and what is genuinely similar between the two. This part discusses...