The problem is that even 1% of the population is well over a million people, and they have to be positioned correctly over a continent-spanning country. Any way you slice it, we're looking at something worth calling a mass movement.
It probably just needs geographic concentration. A small group of dedicated people in one area have a bigger impact than a large group spread out across the country.
You need 10 percent of the population to be coherent you just need a coherent vanguard party and people willing to be radicalized
The problem is that even 1% of the population is well over a million people, and they have to be positioned correctly over a continent-spanning country. Any way you slice it, we're looking at something worth calling a mass movement.
Oh gee who'd have thought that you need a mass movement for socialism and you can't do it with 500 people on some online forum...
The point is that while the idea of a vanguard party sounds small, in reality it'd have to be something like ten times the size of the DSA at minimum.
It probably just needs geographic concentration. A small group of dedicated people in one area have a bigger impact than a large group spread out across the country.