Everyone's always talking about PSL, SRA, DSA, RR, CPUSA, and I'm just over here like "I just wanna grill for god sake!"

There's a million little random leftist organizations with slightly different goals and ideologies, but which one should someone looking to, in the words of Father Matt, 'log the fuck off' go to? Which ones are crank warehouses? Which are honeypots? Which are full of libs?

Bitch and complain about your least favorite orgs and shill for your favorites here. Reply to others telling them that their org is full of libs and FBI agents. Etc.

EDIT: also anyone with a specific recommendation in the Quad Cities area in Iowa/Illinois definitely drop me a line

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
    3·
    4 years ago

    Here my one and only experience with PSL:

    There was a large scale teacher strike in the state and some anarchists set up a table at the rally. The anarchists let PSL drop off some flyers at the table so the anarchists could hand then out for them. I got one which said there was a meeting that weekend.

    I show up a little early ~5-10mins , and of course no one is there. I wait around for about 20 minutes and finally someone, a white lady, shows up. She swears she's not the only member and the rest are in the way. We have some small talk about the strike and probably another 10 minutes later a van pulls up. What follows is the most "American leftist moment" of my life.

    First guy to get out is a young white guy. Once his feet hit the ground, he immediately take a massive hit from his modkit and blows a quite impressive sized cloud. Then a old white guy get outs and starts unloading boxes of..guess what? Newspapers. The 3 sit down and we're all given newspapers. It becomes clear to me now this is everyone that is going to show up.

    Remember how there was a teacher strike in my state? Well we immediately launch into a discussion about Assad, Syria, chemical weapons and imperialism since that's the front page news of their newspaper. This dominated the majority of the meeting but we all agreed that the US should fuck off. We have a quick 10 minute discussion about the strike before everyone has to leave.

    Overall org rating: Better than trots because at least they don't support imperialism in the newspaper

    • EvilCorgi [they/them]
      2·
      4 years ago

      Yeeeeeeah everyone who's told me anything spesific about PSL has had a bad story about them involving newspapers

      I really don't get how they became such a big meme on chapo after Warren got owned and it wasn't really funny to subvert their "she's electable if you vote for her" memes anymore

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      DSA and PSL are both hugely prone to "American leftist moments". It really gets exhausting.

      • EvilCorgi [they/them]
        ·
        4 years ago

        If you walk into one of their meetings and escape without a shoulder bag covered in buttons and pins, consider yourself lucky