"We applaud the democratic revolutions that have transformed the former Communist bloc"

I love the rising wave of neo-fascism in eastern europe - National DSA

this is from their website

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(many DSA chapters are good and based ok, this post is dunking on the National DSA, not all chapters or the DSA on its entirety)

  • Gkalaitza [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    How do you think they should answer the #1 anticommunist talking point, if not in the way they did?

    This can be either demsoc believing this or power level hiding

    "It doesn't discredit it cause first of all socialism doesn't mean the Soviet system . It has a huge history with dozens schools of thought with dem socialism being one that always critiqued the USSR, existed before it and had nothing to do with the way that system was set up and run. The reasons the Soviet system collapsed have nothing to do our socialist policy positions of freehealthcare, racial and economic justice, equality and democracy in the workplace, things that democratic socialism always stood for and attacked the USSR for not having by the way

    • (side note: the USSR did have them in various degrees but the fact is that demsocs always did criticize the USSR on these grounds so you aren't even lying here)-.

    If a completely different system in a completely different country and conditions collapsed for much different reasons would that mean that we should stop our struggle for those goals I mentioned"

    • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      That would be an improvement over the DSA's current answer, but it still doesn't make their approach bad. They're basically punting on a topic most people don't care about anyway.