A radical left-wing group in Los Angeles has published a shocking 40-page roadmap to transform the nation’s second-largest city into a bizarre socialist experiment.
The Democratic Socialists of America’s LA chapter wants to straight-up seize private property through a “creative use of eminent domain,” take control of your neighborhood grocery store, and replace cops with unarmed social workers while shutting down jails.
Their Communist fever dream wishlist includes banning Airbnbs, grabbing golf courses for public housing, allowing noncitizen immigrants to vote in local elections, enforce a school curriculum that supports social justice, and eliminating all fossil fuel use by 2035.
The 3,500 member group has already helped elect several candidates to local office, and previously backed Nithya Raman, a DSA-member now running for mayor. They openly trash the Democratic Party establishment as capitalist sellouts and want to build “working class power” through what they call a “socialist mass organization.”
The manifesto, published in 2025 is more than 9,000-words long and gives an insight into the policies that a potential Mayor Raman has signed up to as a DSA member and could try to implement in LA. It targets the “status quo coalition” of elected officials, real estate developers, billionaires, nonprofits, and even some union leaders who’ve supposedly sold out workers.
They think they can actually pull this off in six to eight years through local elections and organizing.
“We are on the burning edge of the economic, climate, and moral crises that define this generation,” the manifesto warns, adding ominously: “The choice remains socialism or barbarism.”
A non-exhaustive but rather exhausting list of just some of their demands is below:
- Seizing privately owned housing using eminent domain to seize private property and convert to public/social housing
- Build city-owned municipal enterprises and expropriate corporations in essential industries (grocery, restaurants, internet, etc.)
- Decommission Men’s Central Jail and don’t replace with any carceral facilities
- Execute shift to 100% renewable energy by 2035 — complete fossil fuel elimination in 11 years
- Make all public transportation free (buses, trains, bike share)
- Publicly acquire and operate all energy systems — full public takeover of utilities
- Reclaim private and public golf courses via zoning/legislative means for housing/parks
- Divest public pension investments from war profiteers, defense contractors, and fossil fuel companies
- Replace armed police with unarmed alternatives for traffic enforcement and mental health crises
- End all contracts between public agencies and corporations profiting from war/fossil fuels (including Metro’s contracts)
- Ban all unhosted short-term rentals (Airbnb, etc.)
- Prosecute and permanently decertify all cops who kill
- Noncitizen voting in all local elections
- Vacancy tax on empty housing units
- Universal rent control statewide
- Automatic rent freezes and eviction moratoriums with any state of emergency
- Decriminalize all drug use and fund safe injection sites
- Restore voting rights for all former felons
- End all means-testing for child development programs
