Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 21:25:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Cabral <kcabral-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Bombings, Surveillance, and Free Societies (fwd)


On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Rahul Mahajan wrote:

> Good question. Enquiring minds want to know. I want to know. I imagine it's
> true if we mean those who are sympathetic or fellow travelers, but does
> anyone have any idea of the number of socialist activists out there?

	Adding up a member of various groups who identify themselves as 
socialist, I will use the figures each group publishes, I hope most are
honest, some figures are slightly rounded up:

DSA - 15,000
CPUSA - 20,000
SPUSA - 1,000
COC - 2,000
Solidarity - 500 (?)
SWP - 500 (?)

Who can provide figures for groups like the Peace and Freedom Party,
League of Revolutionaries, Labor Militant and fringe groups like RCP, PLP,
MIM, etc. 
			
Then cross-membership has to be taken into consideration, and also active
cadre. Can anyone provide info on what percentage of cadre for groups like
the CPUSA or DSA are really all that active? 
	
Kevin
Cols, Oh





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