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Lol swap left and right tbh

Liberals man

The typos in the post made me think maybe this was sincere at first. Carry on comrade.

Is this a joke?

https://rosegardendsa.substack.com/p/psl-is-a-high-control-group-with

That’s fair criticism and I have issues with the rightist contingents within DSA but I think this framing is a bit disingenuous. We certainly have to deal with opportunism and will have to deal with it more (NYC just dealt with this very publicly with Chi Osse but even the more right wing caucuses ended up coming around to not supporting blatant opportunism).

I speak from a biased perspective here as one of the more left contingents within DSA. I am a member of the Marxist Unity Group caucus which is essentially an Orthodox Marxist faction within DSA that is pushing to move DSA in the direction of being a true independent party (this is actually one of the biggest ongoing national conversations at the moment its very exciting to see and be part of) largely following Leninist principles. The left within DSA is growing rapidly right now. We are winning the political arguments internally but it takes time for these tides to change completely. My chapter’s steering is literally 5/8 avowed communists with many more of us in the ranks supporting and agitating for our positions.

Is DSA today a strong opposition to fascism? No not really but I will say they are massive parts of local efforts therein. Their power is growing every day to become that.

If not DSA as an org then who? The billionaire funded PSL members? Some liberal NGOs? Some other new organization that has 7 members and no meaningful power?

Imo its really unfortunate that NYC DSA is one of the more incoherent and undemocratic chapters (also the largest tho) and is the face of “what DSA is” when the reality is far richer and diverse.

Ok cool. But I mean strategically. It’s nice to say these things and I agree but how?

Because ostensibly DSA is the largest socialist org in the country doing exactly what you are describing…do you think shitting on DSA serves your interests broadly or hurts them?

Posts like this basically being like “this isn’t the REAL left” without any substantive critique AND counter proposal are silly to me. And like I’m part of the DSA and criticize them plenty and will continue to do so but from where I’m sitting they are our best bet as a vehicle for socialist development - warts and all.

These are my favorite kinds of posts. OP praytell what is your opinion on what we should do in the US from the left?

Pixelfed

Americans are afraid to call themselves immigrants. The supremacy brain is so ingrained people don’t even think about why we call Americans moving to a different country expating but call others moving to America immigrating.

Hey man I’m not reading all that but thanks for playing

Organizing works necessitates being up to date with the latest political developments and with Trump that means you gotta have people on the pulse constantly. There’s an aspect of guarding your mental but not to the point of hindering your understanding of things.

All organizing must start local correct. There is no top down solution for this it must be bottom up by the power of the average person, the worker. But I disagree with this framing where you can’t care about people half a world away. Their struggle is our struggle. It is one in the same. And while maybe my direct actions can’t change things my actions sure as hell can help raise awareness or build a movement that can change things.

My dad loves to use that line to excuse him playing golf 6 days a week instead of doing anything to help people beyond some donations. I’m not saying he can’t golf but maybe one or two of those days could be spent doing organizing and activism work.

This line of thinking is more pablum to keep yourself docile and subservient to the powers that be. Emancipation from the oppression of capital is a global fight that requires us to always keep the international struggle in the back of our mind.

Liberals man. Y’all are gross with your inability to see outside of yourself and how your life can only materially improve by working with everyone around you to achieve that goal.

The half hearted commitment to progress as long as it’s convenient and doesn’t make you feel bad is literally why our country is in shambles.

You’re so lucky there are more people who disagree with your mindset than agree with it. All of our freedoms and liberties were won with blood in the streets not with whatever attitude this fucking is.

Revolution doesn’t just happen all at once. It takes intentional and strategic action over time. But revolution is the only way out of where we are now. Capitalism is a death cult. It’s an exterminationist ideology on a long enough time scale. Doing away with it completely is the only option.

What you suggest will only draw out the pain and suffering of humanity longer at the behest of the rich and powerful.

Hey little man I don’t know if you’re aware but the attitudes that I am yelling about that have led to the crumbling of the United States over the past several decades is literally happening in your backyard right now.

Y’all liberals will come around to how wrong just ignoring things is as a strategy to improve your life in a few years once all those social programs you have left are stripped away just like us.

The point is no change in society at the scales we needs happens with this attitude. All of our freedom is inextricably linked to one another - to ignore transgressions on someone else’s liberty is to ignore transgressions on your own.

That’s wonderful and I’m glad you do. The majority of people who make this argument are liberals who like to give themselves an excuse to not have to get up and do anything though. They convince themselves they are powerless when the reality is the opposite.

What we need are people banding together in solidaristic movements not individually doing a little mutual aid here and there. Doing small good deeds is the permissible way people are allowed to change society which is to say in a way that never fundamentally threatens the power structures we live under.

Man go post your fetish shit elsewhere

I don’t know a ton about this beyond what I’m reading from these links but I find it very interesting that the US decided to back the “communist” side of the conflict. Why would the single largest anti communist force on the planet back communists?

If you are using the trappings of socialist policy to persecute minorities brother I am sorry you are definitionally not communist. The US government supporting their movement should really be enough though. I also find the addition of “communist” in the title of this post to be questionable. This is exactly what I’d expect the US government’s goal would be - have a nice example of more evil “communists” to point at.

“I’ve disengaged with the world around me and justified doing nothing to help make it better”.