Baltimore DSA is full of trots and """"Libertarian Socialists"""", all of them college educated PMCs completely disconnected with the struggles that occur in this city. Instead of going into the hood and talking with and organizing some of the most marginalized people in the country they set up tables outside of Johns Hopkins University to inform future brain surgeons of their student rights lmao.
I'm sure that's not what it's like everywhere, but that's kind of the problem.
The annoying part about DSA is its leadership structure. Its annoying to try and get involved and learn how the process works or how leadership is elected and how working groups are developed, but you can certainly get involved to change this about the chapter, it all works on whether there's enough people that want to do a certain thing together. If you look up your communist caucus or labor group they might be more inclined about this being a better strategy to undertake, but just expecting someone else to lay the foundation is how nothing gets done i guess. This new nationwide outreach for example can be a good strategy to get engaged directly with poorer working class neighborhoods depending how your chapter wants to organize. Like doing stuff like food banks or something for example.
Baltimore DSA is full of trots and """"Libertarian Socialists"""", all of them college educated PMCs completely disconnected with the struggles that occur in this city. Instead of going into the hood and talking with and organizing some of the most marginalized people in the country they set up tables outside of Johns Hopkins University to inform future brain surgeons of their student rights lmao.
I'm sure that's not what it's like everywhere, but that's kind of the problem.
The annoying part about DSA is its leadership structure. Its annoying to try and get involved and learn how the process works or how leadership is elected and how working groups are developed, but you can certainly get involved to change this about the chapter, it all works on whether there's enough people that want to do a certain thing together. If you look up your communist caucus or labor group they might be more inclined about this being a better strategy to undertake, but just expecting someone else to lay the foundation is how nothing gets done i guess. This new nationwide outreach for example can be a good strategy to get engaged directly with poorer working class neighborhoods depending how your chapter wants to organize. Like doing stuff like food banks or something for example.