Exclusive | DSA calls US Constitution rationalization of pirate kingdom in workshop to rewrite it

The NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America bashed the US Constitution as “a rationalization of a pirate kingdom” at a twisted workshop last week where it brainstormed ways to abolish the foundational backbone of the country.The “How to Write a Constitution” workshop — led by a Los Angeles-born radical author who spent his early childhood in Kenya and whose middle name is Fidel — is part of nationwide leftist effort to abolish the US Senate, Supreme Court, Electoral College and presidency.“The US constitution is pushing toward a system that looks more and more authoritarian and is not compatible with some vision of Democratic change,” Boston College Law Professor Aziz Rana told the assembled crowd of about 25 people at the DSA’s Lower East Side headquarters, whose red walls are plastered with pictures of the more famous Fidel.“There’s a deep undemocratic element to it,” he said, claiming that it “empowers the state to engage in various forms of violence.”“It might establish rights, but the rights are oftentimes going to be the rights of property holders,” he said.Rana is regularly invited to speak or be interviewed at the organization’s array of events around the country.His 2024 book, “The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them,” has been called by the DSA “a blueprint for the left to return to agitating.”Like “nepo baby” Mayor Zohran Mamdani who hails from a wealthy family, true to champagne socialist fashion, Rana lives with his wife, Odette Lienau, the dean of BC’s law school, in a $3.4 million Brookline, Mass.

mansion.The couple also owns a second home in Ithaca, NY, worth more than $700,000, according to public records.Comrades, fed a catered lunch that included beef, lamb and chicken kebabs, labneh and zaatar bread, ate up the anti-constitution agitprop.“Our constitution was a rationalization of a pirate kingdom,” said one attendee.“That was essentially...