Too Moderate for Maoists: AOC’s 2028 Problem From the Left

The most radical socialists in America just told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez she’s not one of them anymore. The DSA’s Liberation Caucus — a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist faction inside the Democratic Socialists of America — put out a statement this week that reads less like a press release and more like an excommunication. AOC, they said, has engaged in a “continued retreat from socialist politics.” They will not, they wrote, hand her the “presidential standard-bearer” mantle for the movement. The charge sheet: she voted to affirm Israel’s right to exist. She joined House Democrats defending Israel’s right to a defense system, after voting against


