It Begins/DSA General Thread

DSA is expecting a (second) massive surge of membership after this weekend both if Keith Ellison becomes DNC chair, or, more likely, when the Democrats anoint the Obama Administration choice of Tom Perez.

I assume FBI and even the Democratic Party has totally written them off since they were quite literally the left wing of capital (and cucks) under Harrington then a miniscule group until 2016. Their membership is now around 17,500 making them the third largest socialist organization in US history. Second being CPUSA in the '40s and first being SPUSA under Debs.

What are people's thoughts on this? Apparently the presumed attack from the Dem Party is going to be on DSA's whiteness. A few buisness/investing sites have published articles about how dissapointed/fearful they are of DSA's twitter presence.

I know my local branch and many others have recently made an electoral group for running independent candidates or primarying Dems as open socialists. Many DSA branches have also been taking over their local Dem Party branches. Otherwise I can't imagine the DNC giving a shit about them.

twitter.com/DemSocialists
facebook.com/demsocialists/

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dsausa.org/down_ballot_victory_for_dsa_member_in_austin_texas_dl
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dsausa.org/resistance_rising_socialist_strategy_in_the_age_of_political_revolution
rangevoting.org/TarrIrv.html
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socialequality.com/program/
wsws.org/en/articles/2016/07/30/salt-j30.html
socialistalternative.org/2015/11/02/identity-politics-struggle-oppression/
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Keith Ellison is shit anyway. He's turning into a corporate whore in real time and he won't even say anything about the rigging of the Democratic Primary out of fear of offending his masters.

Make one breh. I bet there are at least ten other people in your city who would find it if you just made a facebook page or something.

yeah he's shit, but DSA is basically just an excuse for commies to get together in one spot. if there's a local chapter, it could be full of people with a seething hatred for all Democrats. you don't know until you check it out.

Running independent candidates is a really dumb idea in the long run. DSA needs to decide if they want to be a real political party or a Democrat entryist group.

I live in a pretty big city I dont know why one hasnt been started yet. Maybe I could try to get something together, Im shy tho

merely hiding his power level, and biding his time

Are they socialists or Rosa Luxemburg killers?

And if they want to be a real political party that's also stupid. There are too many socialist faction parties as is. Join the Greens, Socialist Alternative, or SEP, in that order or primacy due to the extreme importance of ballot access.

they are already running candidates for local positions

They aren't as big as the Democrats or have that financial capability to launch huge campaigns… yet.

You can do it comrade. It will start small anyway, so there's no reason to be shy. Think of it like IRL leftypol shitposting.

Where?

Multi-tendency, I believe Jacobin advocated for a unified front (as opposed to a popular front).

Ellison is slightly less garbage than the other corporate stooges. The best DNC candidate is Sam Ronan, though even he seems a little squirrelly.

They should merge with Socialist Alternative the merge with socialist party USA then finally absorb CPUSA,

dsausa.org/down_ballot_victory_for_dsa_member_in_austin_texas_dl

If this becomes a thing then DSA "independent" candidates could benefit from it too.

leftelect.net/

The idea is for generally left candidates to take advantage of the Greens' ballot access.

SPUSA and CPUSA are cointelpozzed and need to be taken out back and shot.

I mistaken i just looked again and we do have one, so I guess I should join.

They could purge conintelpro and liberals when they merge.

DSA can't purge shit.

I can either join my cities DSA, some trot organizations, or stay in my arm chair. What do?

arm chair

Alaskan Gulags when?

Joining DSA for recon may be useful. Just don't drink the Kool-Aid®.

recon what exactly?

I think they're just demsocs not trots,although no doubt it's probably got a lot of trots in it

DSA may not be, but SA and the Sparts are the other groups here, and they're certainly Trots.

I'm not that user but they will give you insight into local leftist struggles and hook you up with organizers.

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In the off chance an independent run is possible, they will do it. Otherwise they are willing to run as Dems if they are openly democratic socialist (sorta like Bernie did where he "occupied" the party). This latter part makes them hated by lots of hard leftists. Which is sort of warranted because under Harrington they were the left wing of the DNC and had the sole purpose of making the Dems more left.


They endorse openly socialist greens like Ian Schlakman and put time/money into them. SEP is impossible since they are sectarian trots. Soc Alt will not give up power ever and only has 1,000 members.


Jacobin and DSA don't like Greens b/c they have no real working class base. But see above about Schlakman. I think DSA consensus if they are occupying a party it mine as well be under the Dem ballot line since they don't have to spent time and money on basically impenetrable voting laws for 3rd parties.

I remember Amber saying that they've ditched a lot of their "Harringtonian strategy".

What? I was subscribed to their newspaper for like two years, they have a big ass FOURTH INTERNATIONAL logo over everything.

lol the Sparts think DSA are CIA proponents and they just recently were tabling outside of the Young Democratic Socialists youth conference in Brooklyn.

One thing that amazes me about DSA/you can see on their twitter is how many people are frequently coming out for meetings. Ik all aren't socialists but it's still weird seeing 100+ people coming out under a socialist banner in places like Texas. (Below is Austin DSA's most recent meeting). Second pic is Brooklyn meeting.

Yeah I joined DSA very early in primaries as a marxist when their membership was still pretty low. So I got to know most of the leadership/people in the National Committee and the Harringtonism is mostly gone. Though some still revere him for no apparent reason (the guy was openly anti-communist and all of Jacobin thinks he belongs in the dustbins of History)

I went to a meeting on a weeknight with as many people as the top pic in Chicago. And there are 4 branches here.

And it's phrases like this that make me think they're both full of shit. The national Greens are very labor oriented depending on area and the last year has seen a huge influx of socialists just like DSA has seen.

How is the Chicago DSA? I'll be moving there in the Summer.

Has anybody created a communist/revolutionary faction within DSA yet?

DSA probably has some more radical local branches. They aren't openly revolutionary though and if they were CIA would be on that like hot shit

Very active. Chapters on the north and south sides, as well as two in the suburbs.

Lots of new people. Only been to a few meetings, but they are at every protest since j20

There are a ton of revolutionaries in DSA, but I don't know of any official factions. For now I think the best thing to do is radicalize the liberals. A revolutionary split may be necessary down the line.

What's the DSA's position on electoral reform?

This is partly why we don't get anywhere, because ideological puritanism leads to a fractured base.
Also any openly revolutionary group in the US,heck any western country, is going to be infiltrated faster than you realise

This. DSA should really be shilling for Sam Ronan.

DSA just started a chapter in my city a week ago and there's already more than a hundred members with more than half of them going to attend the first meeting. Strange.

you should go. Try to get people to focus on the class issues and not fall to idpol

It's because people are really frustrated by Dems, unsurprisingly. They lost nearly a 1000 local seats for a reason.

Trojan horseshit. You liberals never implement leftist policy if it costs you anything. Get used to being inferior partners and complying with leftist orders without lip.

I honestly can't tell the tankie shitposts from parody anymore.

m8 wtf did I say that was liberal? The idea of DSA is that it is a popular party that seeks to reform to socialism via popular elections. How the fuck are DSA gonna do that when they split into 2 parties? I don't like their reformist nature and want to have a violent uprising to seize the MoP like you do, but you are fucking retarded if you don't think that would be COINTELPRO'd almost right away

Source on SPUSA being cointelpro'd? Im a dues payinh member :(

Well you shouldn't be. Safe bet that any party that's had notable influence and notoriety in the past has high infiltration by feds in key roles, meant to steer and guide the efforts of the org towards harmless, mainstream supporting action.

Could be worse, you could be in CPUSA.

SPUSA is ok as far as I know, CPUSA is more CIA than civilians. SPUSA didn't endorse hilldog or anything like CPUSA did

I don't know but they fucking need one. Anyone arguing for moving to socialism (or even social democratic reforms) through electoral politic absolutely has to recognize the extreme problems with our voting systems. Even Democratic Party entryism needs to recognize this in light of the widespread election fraud and suppression during the 2016 Primaries. Nothing will be accomplished as long as we leave the tools for fraud, disenfranchisement, and pushing out third parties intact. Massive electoral reform or full-scale revolution, these are the only options.

I can tell you neither of those will happen. The ruling parties, and the porkies, like FPP and the EC because it gets in the candidates they want and removing it would allow for more radical groups to get power so they have no self interest in that happening. As for violent revolution, that seems as likely right now as the greens getting millions of votes in the midterms

I know CPUSA is unsalvageable, but SPUSA hasnt seemed too sketchy to me besides the crazy identity politics but I expect that from any leftist org whether its fed manipulation or no.

Idk ill probably switch over to DSA purely because theres so much more potential there

Every fucking article about DSA talks about how white and male they are while their membership looks significantly more diverse then either major party.

Really makes you think.

Yeah check it out, can't hurt. Worst case you meet some other leftists and get a broader sense of activism in your city.

They are for electoral reform in general but see it as almost impossible because of the strangle the two parties have on poltitics. They would agree with


They endorsed Keith in part because they think he will be more friendly to progressive Dems and openly DemSoc dems running.

DSA thinks, unlike most other left orgs right now, that we should in some cases be running democratic socialists as Dems in addition to building a mass org/movement that establishes independent political power.

Trots like SocAlt/SEP/ISO for good reason think this will always be a dead end no matter what (many in those parties firmly remember DSA when they were trash). SEP for example is only for building independent working class power.

DSA says it is fine to run as Dems if it is possible to win (like what Bernie almost did) b/c breaking through Dem primaries is way easier than breaking through the entire electoral system.

Idpol knows that the working class is coming together to fight for each other as comrades and not as sperate but equal group identities

From "Resistance Rising: Socialist Strategy in the Age of Political Revolution" their official strategy document as of June 2016

dsausa.org/resistance_rising_socialist_strategy_in_the_age_of_political_revolution

what the fuck is the difference?

fucking god the left does itself no favours with its terminology

I'm fine with DSA right now because they are actually bringing the working class into the folds of socialism, even if it is just reformist. Even if only 5% of people who go to a meeting go on to read on their own and get radicalised that's a huge increase in our numbers

When everyone is trying to take them down by calling them "brocialists" you know something is being done right. Otherwise why the hysteria to discredit them?

various different socialist tendencies/parties work together

when socialists work with liberals

There's another meeting this summer, and with the massive increase in size, nothing is set in stone.

Why are people so against joining SA, it's the only party that's won anything for a century.

SA are trots

New DSA strategy involves united front as one poster said and heavily involving SA (along with ISO, IWW, etc) in the fold whenever possible. Personally I'm an organizer with the DSA and would be more than happy to see more people join the local SA since I know we'll be working with them a lot anyway.

Is that seriously your answer. SA won an actual election, sponsored and fought for workers rights and actually achieved some of them. It's the ONLY socialist party that has done this and you'd seriously rather act like a complete faggot over muh ancient russian men?

Sorry for trigger-happiness. The purity-testing line was right out of the liberal liturgy.
If DSA is in it to kill the Democratic Party as a going concern and scatter the remains to the winds, then I'm totally on-board. Such an action clears room for an organization designed to serve citizens as citizens see fit, rather than liberal norms. The other options is that they seek to change the direction of a petit-bourg trade association with emergent self-awareness into a vehicle for popular power, as if a roller-coaster could be turned into an automobile, a factory that can be made to turn out different widgets with just a few twists of a dial, or a debt collections agency that could be remade into a public polling firm by handing out new scripts.
Imho the inside game is useful only for reconnaissance, sabotage, and maybe possibly outreach. The party itself owns literally nothing but a 50-state ballot line, a mailing list of no particular value, and an address book of donors who won't give the economic left anything but hell. Stalin's words on who decides elections would be well-heard by those playing that field.


This. The Democratic Party won't play at any table it doesn't run. They still expect to determine the agenda and composition of the meetings where actions are taken, and they do not believe that voters have any right to expect any particular outcomes from them, only opportunities and aspirations.

Without delving too deep into it I can say that this isn't completely outside the realm of possibility. But of course public messaging will remain diplomatic on its face.

How's that revolution coming?

I like DSA because they are a good front for radicalisation. imo they should use some donations to distribute Marxist literature to members to get people into the theory

For the record, I agree with you that sectarianism is wrong and bad and that the SA has had useful gains recently. But when people deride an organization for being trot I assure you it has next to nothing to do with Trotsky and everything to do with the qualities people perceive to be endemic to trot organizations.

That's what their internal/external education committees are for fam.

I'm not familiar with those, what do they do?

External: Set up events like movie screenings and other outreach events to spread literature like you said
Internal: Mostly reading groups and discussions for people who want to delve deeper into theory and history. Topics set by interested members.

I can only speak for my own chapter but I've heard this is pretty standard.

Say no more, comr8. My best wishes to you.

You tell me asswipe, this entire thread is about reform and we're way ahead in the race.

I think I'm going to join SA over DSA because I'm too autistic to use the same imagery (roses) as the group that killed Rosa Luxemburg.

Seems like all of the excuses as to why people are abandoning the only successful leftist party in the US is full on autism. If DSA does something with it's small amount of new members I'm sure more retards will show up to whine about leftists actually being relevant again. But still, whining about images really takes the cake.

Lots of hypotheticals going on here. DSA hasn't done anything, and they're going to be collaborating with SA anyway. Might as well join the one with the better imagery and the better people (ie. not you).

There's me on the other hand. I am ecstatic about joining the DSA in spite of their shit choice of aesthetics. Unified front, sign me the fuck up. I won't let you down, Rosa.

Sparts are pedos and support ISIS. Not joking. They endorsed nambla. Pics very related, it's a spart manifesto, some of it details their love of incest, but it's all equally crazy. Posting the whole thing cause I can't be fucked.


I'm in SA and is the only decently chill group of socialists I've ever met. I can understand, after meeting all the other American trot groups, why people might be immediately suspicious, but we're different because we focus on making our theory understandable to ordinary people.

DSA on the other hand is super Bougie and academic, especially the marxists I've met. We'll be working together for the foreseeable future and I'm stoked, don't get me wrong I value any comrades in the struggle, but they need to reform badly. Their leadership is unresponsive and old, some are hardcore liberals scared of the direction the party is going who will fight the current changes bitterly. The Jacobin faction is planning on replacing some of the old guard, from what Bhaskar is saying in the pub these days.

they could have one white male in a party otherwise filled with disabled black lesbians and non-binary hispanic wiccans and "this organisation is very white and very male" would still be the first thing people said about them. that shit is a WMD in left wing politics and will continue to be used until it ceases to be effective.

I''ve been in DSA for a while and am staying but like most aspects of SA a lot better. I know DSA locals are independent and thus do good work + I'm very aware of the Jacobin/Left Caucus attempt at finally moving DSA in the right direction but I am really concerned when. I'm sure lots of debate happens over email lists but I'm concerned Bhaskar and others are too hesitant to confront the old leadership head on b/c the old leadership values their (horrible) heritage and the Jacobin crew wants to stay comradely and polite.

If there is a time when DSA needs to get over the ineffectual liberalism in a clear way it's right now, but that hasn't happened to the extent it should TBH. I'm just hoping at the next conference there's a clear sea change. I read DSA lit/look at their social media for a while and forget what socialism even is. Unlike something like Jacobin the where I read it and remember what we fight for.

At least the locals stay independent so most of the national stuff is mainly symbolic.

reminder that the only people who can vote for the chairman are democratic insiders. if he revealed his power level he'd be dead in the water

I was at the DSA conference in new york this past week. It's pretty much we need publicly financed elections.

If they attack the DSA on muh white males, it's only a win for the anti-idpol left.

Let them strike us down. We'll become more powerful then they could possibly imagine.

This. They're milking the cow of identity politics until the last drop, but it won't last forever.

no war but the armchair war

yeah, me and a couple friends talked with them before we went in. They basically said the DSA killed Rosa Luxemborg even though there was a big fucking banner of her in the main hall.

anybody in the philly chapter?

literally just FBI agents

Fucking retard. I didn't mean we split immediately. I just stated that eventually that may be necessary. Choke to death on your own cum you liberal piece of shit.

Can confirm. She is a friend of mine.

wyd comrade?

an hero

No period of great inequality has lasted over a few decades without disease, war, famine, or social catastrophe related

In this climate

I really don't know what to expect. Change is going to occur, whether that change is towards more of the same, better, or worse outcomes, I really can't say.

But we should be open to opportunities should they arise.

hoochie post neck

They look like regular ass idpol drenched Democrats that went a bit further to the left. I can feel the weakness in their imagery.

Maybe, but until the dems get rid of super delegates (no way since they run the entire party) the party is fucked. For instance, they may run someone like Bernie, but the whole party of democrat candidates that will be riding his coattails will be porkie owned. Plus, they would stop any change by Bernie if he tries to reform.

You don't need to run as a Democrat. But if you're going to be fielding candidates with ideological similarly you should try to run on as a party because candidates running on party tickets provide mutual support for each other.

Looks like Sam Ronan is garbage after all. I knew this guy seemed suspicious and here is is now being too much of a pussy to talk about election fraud and voter suppression. Everyone running for DNC chair is a phony shithead.

Super delegates only matter for president, dumbass. Running for other stuff will eventually actively give you control over the super delegates since a good portion of them are elected state offices themselves.

Unpledged delegates also have a vote in who runs the party nationally and the party platform. It is a system of entrenched power.

Yeah but there's actually very little the national party can do to MAKE you follow the party platform. In general the superdelegate system is only slightly less vulnerable to entryism than the party at large.

They get to vote on bylaws too. Those are a little more important than platform I guess. But at least in my state you can apparently violate the bylaws ("no candidate shall have the endorsement of any elected official until the national convention) with no consequences, so I guess those don't really matter either.

So I've looked around a bit on their site and it looks like they don't shill for a particular alternative voting method. Surely doing that should be a high priority for any third party in the US?

They are not currently a third party. My understanding is the primary focus is advocacy/entryism.

They would favor ending all laws holding back third parties, ending superdelegates within the Dems, ideally work towards rank-choice, but those are not demands worth spending time on because you can't really build socialist movements through them.

They will run as independent if possible, green/third party if possible, and if not that, run in a Dem primary as an open socialist. You will probably see a lot of dems in solidly blue areas get primaries this fall by DSA (NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc.)

Do we have any idea how much of a bump they've gotten

It's weird because it's the dialectic in motion, user. Except those numbers to double and triple in the next years.

Provided we don't get into any trot like spats with other socialists groups and or divide ourselves too much

Get that shit outta here. Approval voting or Score voting, those are your real choices.

Eh I mean SEP is the one that actually cares about theory and history, studies both extensively, and does them right. Le "trots xd" meme misses, you know, an actual evaluation of the position, and how internal diversion and misdirection has done most of the heavy lifting against so-called "socialist" movements historically, up to and including OWS. There's nothing wrong with an appeal for revolutionary purity when it's so unbelievably vindicated by all of history.

A lot of work to count (which provides an excuse for non-transparent electronic counting) and it's basically just a method for having two big parties undisturbed by smaller ones. I prefer proportional elections to single-winner elections, and I agree with that in single-winner elections using approval or average score would be better.

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To that end, I'd say go SEP if you want rigorous theory, DSA if you want mass-market appeal, and SA if you want neither.

He doesn't have a "power-level", he's as much a political hack as all the rest of them.

They are at around 17,500, maybe a bit more. I think they were expecting a larger bump from Perez being voted as DNC chair but I don't think that really happened.

They were only at 6,500/7,000 during the Dem primaries.


I genuinely had no idea about problems with rank-choice. I don't think the consensus is rank-choice in DSA but generally it's whatever voting method is best for third-parties and socialists to enter through. They probably list what they think is best strategically in one of their docs.

SEP is not internally democratic, does not even reveal anything about how they are structured, does not allow any dissent, and also is not concerned at all with tapping into many mass movements b/c they all in some way have a connection to the Democratic Party. I think those are the main drawbacks that ensure they will never be a mass party.

Regardless I think DSA should be moving towards more discipline and adopting a lot of the positions/rhetoric/political positioning of the SEP. But I think that will naturally come to DSA when they start getting more of an actual working-class base versus the strange middle class/petit-borg/student progressives they are getting right now.

What exactly does DSA do with all the money it gets annually? They make at least 1.5 million a year in dues. Where is all that money going?

Ranked Choice aka Instant Runoff is the reform proposal with the most support, sadly. Here is a good explanation why it isn't that amazing: rangevoting.org/TarrIrv.html

That site shills for range voting, which is a pretty decent method. One thing about it that people might take issue with however is that under range, when there is one candidate that gets support as the top choice of over half the voters, that one doesn't necessarily win. In median-based rating or in Top-Flop (see pdf) this doesn't happen, the tradeoff is that these methods can't perform as well in the utilitarian view depicted in (but they are still better than IRV).

can i do anything with dsa if i dont have money for dues

You can go to the general assemblies.

It would be a shame if idpol goons or Democrat infiltrators could vote away their theory and program tbh. I think a certain level of vanguardism is justified for now.
As far as their publications go, they seem to place a lot of emphasis on consensus by the best arguments winning out. The polemics against Steiner and Brenner are a good example. It sometimes seems like a miniature academia, and seemingly operates according to that internal logic, minus the bourgeois funding. It's a larger investment to theorize with them, but perhaps suitably so, again since heterodoxy and uninformed positions have tanked past movements.

I'm not sure if I can take your word for it, since they're one of the most slandered orgs out there (I wonder why?)
They're clearly among the most staunchly critical of the Democratic party and internal reform efforts such as Sanders' and Ellison's, and they insert themselves into quite a few workers' struggles. I haven't really kept up with whether or not they've made a physical presence at the anti-Trump protests, but consistent reporting on world events through the most widely read socialist publication online I'm sure counts for something.

If you want to actually join the annual dues for low income members is $27 and for students it's only $20. I don't think they will mind you getting involved as a non-member though.

yeah they wont kick you out or whatever.

From their section on Progressive Stack:
Proletariat is an oppressed group, but I doubt that's what they mean here.

Getting rid of single winner would be a much higher bar to clear than pushing for ranked choice or instant runoff state-by-state.

I don't follow. I'm not aware the SEP has any such policy
google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=socialist equality party progressive stack&*
Please correct me if I'm wrong though, it would be important for me to know.

I was talking about DSA, not SEP

To be fair, their imagery is coming from the national level, whereas almost everything else is done at a local level.

Regardless, I would recommend everyone who's put off by DSA's current platform or imagery or whatever to check out SA. Although they are nominally a trot organization, it's really night and day between SA and the Sparts, and seems more like they chose to be Trots because they like Lenin and Stalin as mean. SA will absolutely be working with DSA, so you can still make whatever electoral progress you may be interested in while being part of a community with larger aspirations and a more leftist platform.

Although, tbh I just joined SA over DSA because the people in my local SA were more bro-tier. The most important thing is finding liked minded individuals to organize with, not necessarily the parent organization.

I thought SAlt was just a meme, we need numbers.

SAlt is full idpol.

Oh, yeah. I was talking about the SEP in the post you replied to, perhaps I should have clarified.

DSA has a lot of built-in problems and feels like controlled opposition. "It's winning a large number of members" should not be taken as some statement of success. On the contrary, it means it's working as intended. If it's a false "left-of-left" opposition shunting discontent back into a safe dead end, "a lot of people are joining" is certainly not some merit it has to offer you as a leftist.


This is a more embarassingly frank admission that SA has neither a grasp on nor an interest in its own supposed theory than I could've hoped.
The whole issue with """Trot""" orgs is that so many of them deny and reject Trotsky's line. "Trotskyist" has come to be a meaningless term through legions of groups, like SA, who cling to it opportunistically without any real continuity or convictions.
The problem with "Trots" is literally just a problem with fake "Trots"

It has no advantage over SEP other than numbers, and if that's the case, as I've said above, just join and recruit for the better org in the first place. Numbers are not some intrinsic quality.

Truth. But we DO need a large organization in order to accomplish something, ad DSA is young and small enough to radicalize, and might be our best chance.

While that's disappointing. Honestly this alone discourages me from joining. Why would I join a group that thinks I should speak after other because of my race and gender. Who exactly supports this cancer why is it so ubiquitous on the left.

Likely depends on your local branch. Regardless, my branch certainly is more focused on class than DSA.


The problem is much more in the actions of typical trot organizations ie. everything the sparts have ever said. My local SA doesn't deny or reject Trotsky's line, many of the members are passionate about Trotsky's work and will regularly bring it up. My point is more so that, at least my branch, doesn't parade Trotsky front-and-center as a martyr who did nothing wrong. At this point, it's time that early 20th century Russian politics takes a backseat.

Because Porky is THAT GOOD at dividing us.
Any leftist organization will have you listen to a little bit of IDpol.
If we can keep it from being the focus, we have a chance.
The only way to shift the focus is to join, and be smarter and better spoken than the SJW's. (Not that difficult)

Ranked choice is the same as instant runoff. It could have been just the term for the ballot interface, but the IRV advocates have taken it, so when you now see it in a news article that's what it means.

They think SAlt is a Dem Party front for instance. Demands like $15/hr, some Labor activism, Medicare-For-All/Single Payer, are all immediate reforms to the capitalist system they would not endorse because they are either not socialist enough or they constitute endorsement of the Democratic Party/Labor Bureaucracy.

They only now are making that amount of money. They have hired a youth organizer and a traveling branch organizer thus far. There are plans in the works to have 7-8 more organizers working for them. They are also storing a lot of funds because they plan to run candidates in the near future and build up more organizing infrastructure.

Do you know when and how elections for the DSA are held, and why we would or would not want the current leadership to change?

That's the thing, it's hardly ever an overt rejection. It's more appropriative. It's easy to gravitate to trotsky as a stand-in for all non-dictatorial socialism without understanding the theory, and often groups and people that don't focus theory will do exactly that.
Permanent revolution is crucial in making sense of the last hundred years of history imo

Lel no
socialequality.com/program/


I wouldn't say that it's a wing of the Democrats, but their criticism isn't wrong:
wsws.org/en/articles/2016/07/30/salt-j30.html

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🍀🍀🍀Entryism🍀🍀🍀 is a shitty idea regardless

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socialistalternative.org/2015/11/02/identity-politics-struggle-oppression/

ffs you don't have to like SA but they are public about their rejection of identity politics. It's on their website and they say it in public meetings and stuff. learn to read

Not quite the ringing denunciation I'd have hoped
They cede key premises to the idpol crowd and force the issue to be one of tactics, that intersectionality "doesn't offer a way forward" and that we need "a mass movement." But the cultural creationist's attitude is buried deeper than that. If someone believes from the outset that, for instance, the """wage gap""" and other material phenomena can be solved through cultural change within capitalism, I don't see them being convinced by this. And it's just as important to make sure we have an accurate, objective picture of these material relations. In that sense its "pragmatic" conciliatory tone is indeed far from.
I wouldn't exactly call them "full idpol," though it bears noting their theoretical justifications for rejecting it are a little weak and this provides a natural stress point to exploit.
Do they have an assessment somewhere of OWS and the various pseudo-left betrayals like Syriza?