Just saw the new Bad Mouse vid about voting. He had this kind of aside about not voting PSL (along with another one against MLs which just seemed needlessly sectarian).

I was really surprised, so I tried looking further, and he linked some aggregate in the comments which leads to a podcast and a huge google doc with a bunch of links to different criticisms and summaries of problems from late 2020 or so. Covering up sexual abuse scandals and apparently even La Riva going on a transphobic rant in some meeting. And generally a very intransigent leadership culture.

Anyways, I was just wondering what the Hexbear take is here. Deep pandemic madness? Just a problem with the Philadelphia branch? I was considering trying to join when I'm back in the states, but maybe it would be too much of a headache.

https://descentrealizer.medium.com/abuse-counterrevolution-in-the-party-for-socialism-liberation-psl-cult-a-compilation-e5e7d54b7c78

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14wF1Ti5GT2w5GZmwqvhvk6uH4zUss_a-B2GZ9NZEx74/edit?usp=sharing

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Just gonna wade in here and say that that doc has 5 or so links to https://fashbusters.wordpress.com which solely attacks communists and has the three fucking arrows in its logo.

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    Also the page takes the Uighur genocide seriously.

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    Given this and other links to low comment Facebook and Twitter posts, I'm gonna go ahead and say this is just a gish gallop. I honestly have no idea about the PSL, but this attack doesn't seem principled.

    @CaliforniaSpectre@hexbear.net Where did you get that Google Doc? It doesn't seem to be posted by Bad Mouse.