Join and make it less lib. It’s that easy.
The only way you’d make it more lib is if you think you’re more lib than DSA 😳 👀
To those of you requesting I move my posts proselytizing people about joining an organization over to /strugglesession I have but one thing to say:
Join an organization
To those who repeat the line “I believe in democratic centralism so I won’t join” I say: so do I. If that’s such a sticking point for you to not join DSA, which organization practicing democratic centralism are you currently a part of?
Do you think Lenin or Mao woke up one day with a perfectly structured organization laying at their feet comprised of only those who held similar beliefs to them? Of course they didn’t. They crafted and cultivated these organizations and revolutionary mindsets for decades before seeing the fruits of their labor. If you aren’t organizing you are not only not a revolutionary, you are a counterrevolutionary. Are you waiting for a perfect movement to be waiting at the foot of your bed one morning instead of putting in the labor to craft one you see as suitably revolutionary? Not to even scold you, but factually your absence from organization based on personal ideology favors only the capitalist and harms only your comrades.
We should take the same approach Lenin took with the UK Labour Party. The DSA is a bougeois workers organisation.
Join, but do not compromise views or aims and ruthlessly criticise non-revolutionary views. You're not there to do things, you're there to radicalise the base.
This is a good point, thanks for contributing to the discussion comrade. I'm with you right up until the last sentence - why not participate in good DSA campaigns? There are certainly some campaigns the DSA conducts that are pretty goofy (see @guydebord's local experience) but I think collectively throwing our weight behind only good DSA work does even more to further the cause than just participating in the org solely for the purpose of discussion.
Absolutely, reformist concessions are important, but they are primarily important in strengthening and radicalising the working class. In order to prevent complacency we should be clear about any DSA work being simply a first step, or even a propaganda move to far more radical change. At all points our view of a worker-controlled society moving towards stateless, moneyless, classless communism should be advanced.
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Bingo. You are there to combat liberalism. They have built the organization in such a way that everyone has an equal voice. Make yours the loudest and most sure and you’ll undoubtedly win people over
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