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.
It seems to me like there are many advantages to joining a big tent org like the DSA with some level of mainstream acceptance. Having a constant influx of people you can radicalize is one advantage. Another is that having some mainstream acceptance seems like it would make it more difficult for the feds to effectively infiltrate and/or dismantle it, as they did to so many radical groups in the 60s and 70s. A group that is explicitly revolutionary seems much more likely to be a target, and I suppose this is why front groups exist.
It is a fact. And within DSA there are many caucuses that are far more radical than what is seen the be the average DSA member.