Why Socialist Alternative Members are Joining DSA
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Looks like Socialist Alternative is going to try to make DSA form a workers party by having some of it's members join DSA.

Current DSA by-laws allow for chapters to expel members for being in Democratic Centralist organizations but its not automatic. It also seems like SAlt isn't telling their members to join en-masse, just a few to push for a new workers party at meetings.

My DSA chapter isn't happy about this but it seems like most apprehension seems to be from their experience with individual SAlt members, first and the rudeness of the tactic, second. But there seems to be little consideration of their goals.

  • captcha [any]
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    4 years ago

    Honestly they should just do entryism to the green party and then try to recruit our independent candidates from there. I don't even think the greens would be mad.

    • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They should just stop doing dumb shit that everyone knows won't work. Like building a workers party sounds great, but they just have to do entryism to get there lol. They really can't help themselves. They had their moment with getting Kshama Sawant elected but since then they've just made the left look stupid.

      • gammison [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        The idea of building a party on an independent ticket is also just not in the cards right now with the way US elections work. State legislatures control who can run on what party ticket, not the parties.