This is not a membership drive. That’s not my goal. My goal is to have them come in and answer questions that people have about joining an organization. What they do, what people can do to get involved outside of joining an organization, how the joining process works, etc
What you've just described is a pseudo membership drive, the only thing missing is a goal. I think people should be encouraged to join any number of the organizations that are active and doing good work wherever they may be.
I just happened to mention DSA since they fill essentially the same role, just with a larger foot print and more recognition. I do think we as a community do need to encourage each other to get active no matter what it is. There are definitely other groups that I think people would be interested in getting together with that would also benefit from discussion on here as well.
I am not trying to discourage you from doing this, by any means :che-smile:
what would be the reason to focus our efforts on a less-developed vessel of doing electoralisms
The foremost reason is that PSL does not center electoralism in the same way that the DSA does (as far as I know). Anytime I suggest joining the DSA though, it comes with a big asterisk that you need to jump into the Marxist caucus and advocate for the DSA to become something more useful (like the PSL). The biggest appeal that the DSA has is that there are people already there (given most of them are libs, but it's up to the Marxist caucuses to start selling their regional branches on another outlook, that's step 1).
What you've just described is a pseudo membership drive, the only thing missing is a goal. I think people should be encouraged to join any number of the organizations that are active and doing good work wherever they may be.
I just happened to mention DSA since they fill essentially the same role, just with a larger foot print and more recognition. I do think we as a community do need to encourage each other to get active no matter what it is. There are definitely other groups that I think people would be interested in getting together with that would also benefit from discussion on here as well.
I am not trying to discourage you from doing this, by any means :che-smile:
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The foremost reason is that PSL does not center electoralism in the same way that the DSA does (as far as I know). Anytime I suggest joining the DSA though, it comes with a big asterisk that you need to jump into the Marxist caucus and advocate for the DSA to become something more useful (like the PSL). The biggest appeal that the DSA has is that there are people already there (given most of them are libs, but it's up to the Marxist caucuses to start selling their regional branches on another outlook, that's step 1).
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