André Vasquez, who was elected to Chicago’s City Council last year as a socialist, has voted in favor of the mayor’s budget. The Chicago DSA has censured him. This raises a big question: How can a socialist organization make its elected representatives accountable?
DSA has some serious problems with telling people to fuck off.
I wasn’t saying there’s really a better way to do it, I think DSA handles it pretty well especially considering how large the org is.
Wait, which is it?
When it all came out, they were pulled from their positions and took about 1 week to get to the vote and another week to have them expelled.
There are definitely situations where I think certain actions should immediately nullify your DSA membership, like being a representative and going against your chapter’s interests or stuff like sexual harassment. Where reinstatement should be contingent upon a chapter meeting rather than the other way around.
A one-week turnaround is as close as you can get to immediate if you're a large group and you do even basic fact finding about the issue. And a "guilty until proven innocent" rule is far too easy for wreckers and feds to exploit.
Wait, which is it?
A one-week turnaround is as close as you can get to immediate if you're a large group and you do even basic fact finding about the issue. And a "guilty until proven innocent" rule is far too easy for wreckers and feds to exploit.
Let me live in my contradictions damn it!
(You're totally right)