I made a post in tactics (maybe the wrong community) about how I have been agitating members of the Sunrise movement and building an ecosocialist caucus to challenge the national leadership. I've been thinking about how such a structure would work, and how to make it more efficient and while reading Moa's "Rectify the Party's Style of Work" I learned about democratic centralism. It seems like a good place to start but I'm having trouble finding good resources to draw from. Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

  • Camboozie [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    For me what could be gained from agitating within sunrise and forming a faction is that it could potentially reach a lot of people who are ready to be radicalized. I'd be happy even if it just causes a break because by that time a large(ish) number of people will be onboard, and then maybe we could start our own thing?? I'm not going to keep with it for too long if it's not going anywhere, I don't want to waste too much of my time, but I am ever an optimist and think that if there is a possibility of shifting this org I might as well try!

    I don't know much about democratic centralism, but I wanted to explore it as an alternative to the top down structure that Sunrise takes at a national level. I was thinking of using it as a proposed structure for the ecosocialist caucus. I would love to learn more about how the DSA ecosocialist groups intersect with sunrise. From what I can tell they were not organized in any capacity because no one was having conversations about socialism on the national forum before I joined it!

    I guess I just don't want to start from scratch and other organizations at this scale seem to have similar criticisms leveled at them. I figure I'll work where I potentially have the most influence for now.