DSA's anti-capitalist ideology features anti-American, anti-police and abolitionist elements. DSA also called for Israel's destruction and justified terrorism two days after Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.

PSL is a self-identified American Marxist group that aims “to abolish the corrupt, rotten…capitalist…system, and replace it with…a socialist system.” PSL believes “revolution” is both “a necessity and a right” and the only means to “do away with the rule of the capitalists once and for all.”