Steering Committee DSA North Star The Caucus for Socialism and Democracy September 27, 2021 We oppose and reject the statement of the National Political Committee of DSA criticizing...
DSA chapters vary a lot. There are a lot of communists / hardcore DemSocs in many chapters, enough that they're in the leadership positions and run the agendas.
I would wager that a lot of membership is baby leftists but the people motivated to do the leadership work tend to be better.
Sure, but I was under the impression that most of DSA were filled to the brim with AOC types, left anticommunists and was a thoroughly liberal org.
Probably depends on the individual chapter, but from what I've seen it tends to be more actually leftist than it appears, though it is a "big tent" org, so you get all types.
Not at the institutional level - institutionally, it's been governed mainly by left-labourists, whatever you want to deem modern Sao Paulo Forum DemSocs, and post-Trots, with a handful of leftcoms for the last few years.
I get that, but since the topic was on DSA, I just happened to remember that the IC did a no cold war session and was curious why the org was acting differently from what I previously perceived it to be.
The IC is about 500 DSA members, and the leadership is appointed by the NPC, so it mostly comes down to having a good NPC and a lot of DSA ppl who care about internationalism and anti imperialism to get involved. The convention elected an NPC and took up a platform and resolutions in line with the IC because most members support the IC.
Anyone have any idea why the DSA IC is so much better? I'm surprised at how non-lib it is.
Its members lobby well and the NPC that appoints them is less lib than they appear.
Sure, but I was under the impression that most of DSA were filled to the brim with AOC types, left anticommunists and was a thoroughly liberal org.
DSA chapters vary a lot. There are a lot of communists / hardcore DemSocs in many chapters, enough that they're in the leadership positions and run the agendas.
I would wager that a lot of membership is baby leftists but the people motivated to do the leadership work tend to be better.
What do you mean by hardcore DemSocs? Like Bolivia DemSocs or like Bernie-style imperialist socdem?
The former. Actual anti-imperialists dedicated to abolition of the owner class using bourgeois democratic means (yeah I know I know).
The kinds of demsocs that do free firearms training course for workers.
Probably depends on the individual chapter, but from what I've seen it tends to be more actually leftist than it appears, though it is a "big tent" org, so you get all types.
Not at the institutional level - institutionally, it's been governed mainly by left-labourists, whatever you want to deem modern Sao Paulo Forum DemSocs, and post-Trots, with a handful of leftcoms for the last few years.
The good statement North Star is criticizing isn't even from the International Committee (IC) but from the National Political Committee (NPC).
I get that, but since the topic was on DSA, I just happened to remember that the IC did a no cold war session and was curious why the org was acting differently from what I previously perceived it to be.
The IC is about 500 DSA members, and the leadership is appointed by the NPC, so it mostly comes down to having a good NPC and a lot of DSA ppl who care about internationalism and anti imperialism to get involved. The convention elected an NPC and took up a platform and resolutions in line with the IC because most members support the IC.