heqt1c [he/him] to Post Maine On Main • 4 years agoDSA Announces 85,000 members, 155 elected officials.imagemessage-square33 fedilinkarrow-up1127file-text
arrow-up1124imageDSA Announces 85,000 members, 155 elected officials.heqt1c [he/him] to Post Maine On Main • 4 years agomessage-square33 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremrbigcheese [he/him]hexbear10·4 years agodsa had like 10k members in 2016. proportional to population cpusa hit its peak around 200k in the 40s and the socialist party around 400k in the 10s link
minus-squareClassic_Agency [he/him,comrade/them]hexbear1·4 years agoTo reach that same percentage the DSA would need about half a million members. link
minus-squareClassic_Agency [he/him,comrade/them]hexbear1·4 years agoAccording to the numbers you gave me the CPUSA peaked at membership being 0.15% of the USA 1940s population. For DSA to have the same percentage of USA 2020 population it would need ~500K members link
minus-squaremrbigcheese [he/him]hexbear7·4 years agooh no those numbers are already proportional to what cpusa had back then, which was like under 80k link
minus-squareClassic_Agency [he/him,comrade/them]hexbear1·4 years agoWell thats good to hear I guess link
dsa had like 10k members in 2016. proportional to population cpusa hit its peak around 200k in the 40s and the socialist party around 400k in the 10s
To reach that same percentage the DSA would need about half a million members.
for what
According to the numbers you gave me the CPUSA peaked at membership being 0.15% of the USA 1940s population. For DSA to have the same percentage of USA 2020 population it would need ~500K members
oh no those numbers are already proportional to what cpusa had back then, which was like under 80k
Well thats good to hear I guess