Too often, DSA is dismissed as a purely social democratic organization, and outsiders discount the communist organizing within it. As a Marxist-Leninist DSA caucus, we reject this narrative. DSA is our political home! We in Red Star are communists who believe that DSA is the most effective place to serve
How do you stop the right factions from doing that? Stay out of the fight because the right factions are terrible? Like, 2/5s of the DSA right now is a way of deradicalizing folks back into supporting the democrats. It used to be almost all of the DSA, like how CPUSA is captured by democrats.
I think people are disillusioned by bourgeoise democracy and don’t understand that the DSA has an actual democracy because they see DSA being shitty and assume it is irrevocably captured. The right faction aren’t that connected to the democrats, it is more of a “notice me senpai” relationship where some of the leadership want NGO positions, and the right leadership’s hold of their membership is really tenuous because they aren’t actually invested in organizing their membership, they’re interested in mobilizing to prove that they’re good mobilizers to democrats, putting them at a massive long term disadvantage which we’re exploiting.
See, now that’s a much stronger claim. As I said to another poster, wake me up when you’ve actually won something, that will be good evidence. As it is now, at least without hard numbers, it’s observationally identical to cope. It’s up to you lot, if you are interested, to produce phenomena that could only be the case if you are right and there is a powerful enough radical constituency. Until then, it will plainly be the better answer for the rest of us that we should focus on organizations that don’t require coups to not support genocide.
I think you’re dismissing quantitative changes because you haven’t seen qualitative changes yet. I understand wanting to wait for qualitative changes to not be skeptical, but as Marxists we also understand that qualitative changes are an accumulation of quantitative changes, and there is very clear evidence of quantitative changes.
How do you stop the right factions from doing that? Stay out of the fight because the right factions are terrible? Like, 2/5s of the DSA right now is a way of deradicalizing folks back into supporting the democrats. It used to be almost all of the DSA, like how CPUSA is captured by democrats.
I think people are disillusioned by bourgeoise democracy and don’t understand that the DSA has an actual democracy because they see DSA being shitty and assume it is irrevocably captured. The right faction aren’t that connected to the democrats, it is more of a “notice me senpai” relationship where some of the leadership want NGO positions, and the right leadership’s hold of their membership is really tenuous because they aren’t actually invested in organizing their membership, they’re interested in mobilizing to prove that they’re good mobilizers to democrats, putting them at a massive long term disadvantage which we’re exploiting.
See, now that’s a much stronger claim. As I said to another poster, wake me up when you’ve actually won something, that will be good evidence. As it is now, at least without hard numbers, it’s observationally identical to cope. It’s up to you lot, if you are interested, to produce phenomena that could only be the case if you are right and there is a powerful enough radical constituency. Until then, it will plainly be the better answer for the rest of us that we should focus on organizations that don’t require coups to not support genocide.
I think you’re dismissing quantitative changes because you haven’t seen qualitative changes yet. I understand wanting to wait for qualitative changes to not be skeptical, but as Marxists we also understand that qualitative changes are an accumulation of quantitative changes, and there is very clear evidence of quantitative changes.