So PSL needs to spend millions on a failing electoral strategy because it is .... a mechanism for advertising PSL? This to you is a good use of that much money?
Instead of organizing any workers they just advertise their ideas and then what? Somehow that creates a revolution? They want to "inspire more working-class organizing" but what working class organizing is PSL involved in? I've been organizing in one of the biggest cities with one of the biggest PSL chapters in the country for over a decade and PSL is virtually unknown to any workers here. The only people who know PSL here are the PB college kids who volunteer for them (and eventually leave because they have terrible internal structure and protect abusers), and other leftist in the area who see them as grifters who show up to events to try and recruit without contributing anything to the action taking place. The local DSA chapter has stronger ties with both labor and tenant movements than PSL, which is a fucking joke.
I'm a fan of breakthrough news but there is no merit in the argument that millions on electoral campaigns is growing any revolutionary movement. PSL is not a mass party, it is not made up of the masses. Much like DSA it is made up of overwhelmingly white college students and college graduates who look nothing like the masses and who the masses do not interact with. Growing paper membership to funnel them into an electoral campaign to grow paper membership serves the people at the top of PSL, and no one else
So PSL needs to spend millions on a failing electoral strategy because it is .... a mechanism for advertising PSL? This to you is a good use of that much money?
Instead of organizing any workers they just advertise their ideas and then what? Somehow that creates a revolution? They want to "inspire more working-class organizing" but what working class organizing is PSL involved in? I've been organizing in one of the biggest cities with one of the biggest PSL chapters in the country for over a decade and PSL is virtually unknown to any workers here. The only people who know PSL here are the PB college kids who volunteer for them (and eventually leave because they have terrible internal structure and protect abusers), and other leftist in the area who see them as grifters who show up to events to try and recruit without contributing anything to the action taking place. The local DSA chapter has stronger ties with both labor and tenant movements than PSL, which is a fucking joke.
I'm a fan of breakthrough news but there is no merit in the argument that millions on electoral campaigns is growing any revolutionary movement. PSL is not a mass party, it is not made up of the masses. Much like DSA it is made up of overwhelmingly white college students and college graduates who look nothing like the masses and who the masses do not interact with. Growing paper membership to funnel them into an electoral campaign to grow paper membership serves the people at the top of PSL, and no one else