• TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        What do you mean by hardcore DemSocs? Like Bolivia DemSocs or like Bernie-style imperialist socdem?

        • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          The former. Actual anti-imperialists dedicated to abolition of the owner class using bourgeois democratic means (yeah I know I know).

    • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      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.