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.

    • aerides [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      for real it's like americans just forget about the rest of the world regardless of their political leanings

      I've seen a lot of complaints about leftist forums being too american as a dogwhistle for anti-idpol types but the basic complaint is valid

      e.g. everyone has extremely rigid high horse opinions about the DSA and american politics but somehow it's funny to pull up random conflicts from wikipedia and be like "which side do you choose?" like they're proud nobody here knows shit about dick outside america

    • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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      4 years ago

      real, valid, and valuable input comrade. I think it can't be helped that a lot of this site's discussion is America-centric; so many of us are Extremely Online and English is the most accessable language for a lot of this stuff, and those facts lend themselves to heavily American discussion. I hope there's something to be learned from the discussion we have in this thread and how it relates to local equivalents for you.

    • Shitbird [any]
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      4 years ago

      then don't worry your sweet heart, because this post isn't about you