What Do Democratic Socialists Actually Want?

The Democratic Socialists of America just hit 129,000 members, the most socialists in US history. So what do democratic socialists actually want? We watched two viral videos to find out, and it got weird fast. Is democratic socialism a real movement or a vibe with a membership card? Two guys, one from each side, try to answer it honestly.

We first watched Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health Communism, argue that getting in shape is fascist and the left should be proudly "dysgenic." Danny got confused and Henry tried to help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKeoXXgYNYA

Then we watched DSA co-chair Megan Romer sit down with David Remnick on the New Yorker Radio Hour and did a play-by-play on her answers to some pretty basic questions. Some of them landed. Most were weird and sparked some debate between us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWsHLvBntg

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 – Henry is back: why Bro History went quiet

01:41 – Meet Chookah Bogan, the AI third chair

02:52 – Why we don't let AI write the show

05:56 – 129,000 members: the most socialists in US history

07:17 – Mamdani so far: NYC is still standing and crime keeps falling

11:05 – Video 1: "Being fit is fascist"? Decoding the dysgenic speech

15:21 – Henry's generous reading: eugenics, disposability, and Marx

21:50 – Danny's hot take: the DSA is the left's Tea Party

24:17 – Video 2: DSA co-chair Megan Romer with David Remnick

26:29 – Workplace democracy: should every barista get a vote?

29:02 – Chookah checks: 706 Starbucks stores have unionized

33:19 – $500K union jobs and whether baristas are skilled labor

39:02 – Collective bargaining, Big Pharma, and the Medicare for All logic

41:02 – Owning the means of production: Google, Apple, power, water

42:49 – Why Marx would hate this: "a kinder, gentler capitalism"

45:26 – DSA is an umbrella: Bernie types, tankies, and open communists

52:06 – Romer says it out loud: this is not social democracy

54:05 – Who is "working class"? Romer vs Mamdani's $1 million line

57:47 – Chookah checks LeBron's net worth

01:01:10 – Retire the term "working class"? Factories vs Starbucks vs Deloitte

01:03:15 – Danny built an AI company. Is he the owner class now?

01:05:14 – Plumbers vs Bezos: Amazon drivers and the piss bottles (fact-checked)

01:10:02 – DSA snubbed Hillary in 2016 and Harris in 2024

01:12:06 – Jacobin's "guerrilla insurgency" inside the Democratic Party

01:18:34 – Open borders: the immigration non-answer

01:23:21 – Danny's actual immigration plan

01:27:47 – Why "it's the immigrants" stopped working in 2026

01:33:50 – "Tax the hell out of millionaires." How much? No number.

01:36:26 – "The rich" is the left's version of "the immigrants"

01:39:23 – The Israel red line and a suspicious jump cut

01:43:01 – One state, two states, or Canaan

01:49:00 – The Haaretz report: did Netanyahu know before October 7?

01:51:05 – DSA's 2028 shortlist: Fain, Nelson, AOC, Khanna

01:53:29 – Chookah recaps the entire episode

01:55:33 – Outro: Substack, Maneku, and getting back on schedule

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https://brohistory.substack.com/

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