Edit- y’all are getting salty. Clearly I agree with Lenin that revolutionaries should work in reactionary parliaments. But that is not the same as the DSA who think electoralism is the key to meaningful change, and not a combination of legal and illegal strategies.

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The capacities we seek to develop include recruiting and running candidates on a unified political platform; training campaign organizers and legislative staffers; providing access to financial resources; crafting working-class policy to be introduced in government; and organizing members and voters to support not just candidates, but also fight for reforms around immediate material demands

    This strategy surely been working. I refer to Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution

    • Automatic [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      You are approaching this as if every chapter follows national to the T, most people I know hate national and know they're libs

      • RedArmor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Why not have a democratic centralized party where clubs and regions work independently but still within the same revolutionary theory passed down from successful past revolutions and communists parties? If your leadership is libs, then how will that not transfer to those in the organization?

    • myopic [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      read the last clause again...? what do you think it says? it’s explicitly about working outside of elections. or how about the verb “include” at the very start of your handpicked paragraph? why are you pretending that says something it does not say? did you actually read the rosa text? remind me of the passage where it says there are no immediate material demands to make or any struggles outside of the revolution itself

      I’m not a DSA guy, I’m not even politically or ideologically aligned to them, but look how easy it is to just make shit up about a political program and then wonder how our enemies get to do that to us.