This vibes anecdotally with my local chapter. In the face of overwhelming membership solidarity with Palestinian liberation, the social imperialist reactionaries are purging themselves.

  • punk_punk [none/use name]
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    Eat shit and get out. After getting grossed politicked out of other things by the likes of you, I am glad you eat shit.

    Take your “Democracy” and shove it where the sun don’t shine, mfer. Genocidal freaks btfo

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    Shouldn’t this be in the dunk tank? Fucking crybaby whining about a socialist organization emphasizing sympathy for victims of imperialism.

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    Isn’t it interesting the way “the company you keep” is only directed left? DSA members were at a rally where allegedly a dark honoured joke was told on the subject of the Hamas attack; oh well, guess they’re Hamas terrorists by proxy.

    Meanwhile the author highlights amongst his lists of concerns and achievements that the company they keep (unlike someone hearing a joke at a rally, actively and materially support) the CIA, the Democrats, Ukrainian nazis, and the genocidal apartheid ethnostate of Israel. I dunno, sounds like a bad bunch of dudes to me.

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    DSA’s National Political Committee did not agree with the two most prominent democratic socialists in American public life.

    doesn’t really seem like a huge dunk on the DSA tbh

    knowing Israel@will retaliate- do you get that they don’t give a FUCK about Palestinian lives???

    damn silverman, what if the israeli military simply… didn’t retaliate? is it really solely on the prisoners inside the concentration camp to break the cycle of violence, even as that violent cycle is being continuously engineered by the guards?

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      Also, in any socialist organization worth its salt the direction should be coming from the ground up, not the organization acquiescing to a couple of high-profile nominally socialist figures.

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        nominally

        That’s a word carrying a huge load for those liberals, if you’re talking about who I think you’re talking about

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          If words were materials we could build a space elevator with this shit. Would make a lot of bazinga brains happy

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        272 years ago

        The DSA has constitutional measures to undercut structures of democratic centralism, so it shouldn’t be surprising that the liberal administrators want to be able to steer it as they please.

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    572 years ago

    Hot take: DSA national’s statement is good because it condemns the killing of all civilians and still gets these people to show their asses. Seems like it may come in handy later.

  • edge [he/him]
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    Amazing how this just hits pretty much every radlib talking point.

    • “we need to work with the Democratic party”
    • “the left wing of the possible” aka “pragmatism”
    • “Marxists are evil dictators”
    • Zionists
    • “Israel has a right to defend itself”
    • “Israel has a right to exist”
    • RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA, we have to support the Nazis in Ukraine!”
    • Uyghur “genocide”
    • “purity tests”
    • believing the IOF’s claims of Hamas’s actions

    Also, you don’t have to read the article now, I just summed it up. Unless you really want to read about the radlib history of the DSA.

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    ctrl+f “workers”, “working class”, “proletariat” NOT FOUND amber-snacking

    old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist

    You know who else believed that struggling with the contradictions of class society is “outdated” and not “modern”? The nazis

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    I quit DSA because it wasn’t Leftist enough.

    You quit DSA because it wasn’t Zionist enough.

    We are not the same.

      • Maoo [none/use name]
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        202 years ago

        Keep a foot in the door so you can jump in opportunistically. Unless you would die from embarrassment lol.

      • jabrd [he/him]
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        402 years ago

        It sounds like it’s moving left, though it also sounds like this has only been possible due to a mass drop in membership following the failure of the Bernie campaigns. Marxist Unity Group seems like their worth checking out as an internal bloc to the DSA and where it could go

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          They have had a drop, but they’re still massively above their 2015 numbers. This is just a natural lull where the opportunists and the less committed falll away.

        • NotARobot [she/her]
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          202 years ago

          Funnily enough, the 3 he listed (Red Star, MUG, and Commie Caucus) are the 3 I’d most recommend people check out. Unless you have a strong preference for one of them I’d just join whichever is most active in your area.

          • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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            I think the big difference is that Commie Caucus leans direct actionist while MUG leans more electoral.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          152 years ago

          Whatever the cause, it is opportunity to radicalized many people and take advantage of a local organizing apparatus (where applicable) to do good work for the community.