With the membership approaching 100k, and with the structure of the organization being democratic and up for revision given a strong enough push from the internal caucuses, why are there still unaffiliated american socialists?
 I think the predominate view on this website is that DSA is a monolithic organization that is simply full of radlibs and social democrats or democratic socialists, however the richness of the caucuses and the amount of local marxist caucuses which are attempting to reform the DSA is in my opinion largely ignored here.
 The Democratic Socialists of America is *our* organization as socialists of america and if you critique it without affiliating yourself and without acting to change it, than what are you truly doing? It is definitely one of the twelve types of liberalism for you criticize in private but not to the collective itself. Problems you have with the DSA from your critical perspective should be brought up every month at your local general meeting. Critique from outside the organization, as if you were not a socialist, is not going to affect change. 

tl;dr: as a chapo who didn’t join DSA for years bc of the stigma here calling them radlibs, i ask of you, why are you seriously not in the DSA. for if you don’t like it, then join and act in the oppositional caucuses; and if you do like it but just haven’t joined, then come on comrade follow suit.

edit: This struggle session has been quite bountiful I will say. We have learned that there are three instances in the DSA's constitution that allow for (1) the expulsion of members that are under the discipline of democratic-centralist organizations (2) local charters will be revoked if the majority of members become under the discipline of democratic-centralism and that (3) local youth charters will be revoked if majority of members become. dem-cent.

  • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    There is no left near me and i both can't afford and don't have the time to drive 3+ hours to the local dsa

    • queenjamie [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah for real. The DSA has absolutely zero reach outside of big cities and college campuses. I mean, look at that post from the other day where a chapo didn't even know that Hooters is a real restaurant. It's shit like that that shows just how disconnected these supposed "leftists" are to normies.

      I tried to find one near me but the closest one was really far away. On the DSA's site they say you can form a new chapter if your area isn't covered by another, so I decided to try that. Well, guess what, the website said I was under the jurisdiction of the one that was already really far away! So what am I supposed to do? Drive really far to one that has nothing to do with local issues?