Megan Romer

Type: person | Domain relevance: DSA national co-chair; the organization’s most on-the-record voice in this corpus.

Summary

National co-chair of the dsa and member of its National Political Committee. In a long adversarial New Yorker Radio Hour interview she supplies the wiki’s best primary material on how DSA leadership defines its project: democratic control of workplace, housing, and politics — explicitly not “a kinder, gentler capitalism” and explicitly distinct from European social-democracy. Answers most policy-specificity questions procedurally (“we decide it democratically”) and disclaims being “the one true arbiter of DSA thought.”

Key Facts

• Affirms belief in social-ownership-of-the-means-of-production; near-term: public ownership of power, water, internet.
• Defines working class by relation to capital; rejects zohran-mamdani’s reported under-$1M definition.
• Voted for the 2024 Harris non-endorsement as an NPC member; personally voted Clinton 2016 and Biden 2020 as “harm reduction.”
• Called October 7 “largely inevitable”; opposes US weapons to Ukraine; describes Putin as a “right-wing oligarch.”
• Confirmed (2026-08-13 ingest): Romer is the Red Star co-chair. “Megan R. (At-Large) (Red Star)… reelected as Co-Chair” per a DSA chapter’s own convention account (rochester-red-star-2025-the-future-starts-now), corroborated by the official tally roster (metro-detroit-dsa-2025-convention-results). She has held the seat since 2023, when Red Star won all three of its NPC races (redstar-2024-communists-belong-in-dsa).
• Reading note for the New Yorker interview: her procedural “we decide it democratically” answers came from a member of a self-described Marxist-Leninist caucus whose stated goal is winning hegemony within DSA — context the interview itself never surfaced.

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Entities: dsa, zohran-mamdani, red-star-caucus Concepts: democratic-socialism, social-democracy Debates: is-democratic-socialism-different-from-socialism, is-the-dsa-taking-over-the-democratic-party