A minimum-maximum programme This is the mission statement of the Marxist Unity Slate - a set of proposals for the 2021 convention of the Democratic Socialists of America. The aim is to achieve democratic discipline and principled election campaigns, as well as uniting Marxists around a vision of a mass working class socialist party While it is hard to envisage the working class coming to power any time soon, the state of the US left is relatively strong today and there is reason for optimism. Prior to the growth of the Democratic Socialists of America it was a constellation of dogmatic microsects, organised under militarised bureaucratic centralism, and based on an ahistoric caricature of early Bolshevik history. Its replacement by the DSA is a positive development.