I appreciate everyone’s responses a lot. I also think it was good to remove the post because there was some reactionary stuff in the google doc I linked. I found it through one of the articles that Bad Mouse’s link led to, not in any of the other comments. I only looked at the “first hand accounts” links in the doc and didn’t even double check what else there was so that’s my error.
I had a feeling the take would be that there are certainly big flaws, as there are in any org, with any group of people, but PSL is still one of the few vehicles for socialist agitation that there actually exists, and by joining it we can help improve it.
I’m likely going to be moving to San Francisco when I’m back in the states in case anyone has recommendations about specific orgs in the bay that are certainly good.
Also I got to say Bad Mouse’s ultra turn also bummed me out a little. It seems like such a baby leftist thing to do to just shit on a socialist party from across an ocean and then refuse to elaborate.
No idea what this is about but the Republicans and Democrats both secure unlimited financing for business partner nations’ genocide, and enable/coverup JeffEp-style intelligence operations. Whatever grievances one can find regarding PSL, probably the only organized socialist political body in the country that stands to attract even 1,% in the polls, rest assured they will probably be made moot by whatever scandals would come about if a hypothetical PSL ever actually gets a single politician into any office at any level.