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Mission
1. Our mission is to educate and organize students and young people and to play a helpful and principled role in the movement for social justice. Within and throughout this struggle, we will articulate and defend the idea that true human liberation is impossible under capitalism. We seek social change which extends democracy into all aspects of life -- social, political and economic. This is the struggle for democratic socialism. Our vision of socialism is profoundly democratic, feminist, and anti-racist.

Membership Benefits
YDSA is a space in which students, campus workers and community youth can learn from one another and be empowered to fight against the most pressing social justice issues impacting our communities. We educate our fellow students on how capitalism is negatively impacting every social justice issue from immigration rights to free healthcare to stopping global warming, and to organize campaigns that will combat these threats to our right to a better world. We practice radical solidarity with other campus and community groups that are fighting for justice, equality and liberation, and push for a true democracy in our campuses and local communities that will serve as the ground for for a democratic socialist future.
Through our biannual conventions, we democratically determine what the next overarching goals and positions for YDSA will be and how to put them into practice. Through healthy debate and learning from other leaders representing chapters from all over the country, we determine the aims of our campaigning work in our communities and our vision for a democratic socialist society. We aim to establish a clear framework of short and long-term goals towards establishing democratic socialism and to provide resources for working towards those goals in our chapters all across the country.