Which one of you did it?
Some DSA chapters are much more radical than others. The one where I am at is pretty great.
Or in the case of the LA and Long Beach chapters, one is a massive drama factory where everyone yells at eachother, and the other is a poetry club respectively.
that's actually existing socialism if I ever heard of it
the beer and the bb guns, and the airsoft rifles, will be held communally,
DSA chapters can do different things than others and not follow the same lines because they are not democratically centralized. They aren’t a revolutionary party.
This. DSA chapters I know do a lot of good mutual aid and electoral work, and will sometimes send people out to pickets for union strikes.
But because they aren't willing to organize along DemCent lines nationally, they're more Lions Club than Black Panthers Party.
Yes their explicit rejection of democratic centralism is anticommunist and hobbles their ability to develop and enforce a party line.
DSA is whatever you make of it. It will attract libs but then you get to build ties with them and help them radicalize.
I’m shocked any action came from DSA CENTRAL.
DSA is where you go to meet leftists and more organized groups along with getting to know your local undercover cops and be put on a list by any informant who wants the correct spelling of your name.
I reached out to my local DSA chapter in an attempt to learn about the organization, they basically said "go join the national org and pay your dues then get back to us." They also have no means of interaction outside twitter/Facebook pages and an email that gets checked once a month. Is this normal?
As with everything else in DSA, it depends on the branch.
The one I'm involved in shows up to food not bombs, does free fixing of headlights/tail lights, and does outreach at schools and other political events they set up.
Nothing within feasible driving distance other than the aforementioned DSA chapter
They will always be a lib group that engages in nothing but navel-gazing and arguing about gendered language and clap-induced PTSD until they achieve anything of merit. No amount of theory will change this.
They still have my extremely begrudgingly critical support, and the emphasis here is on "critical".
