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.
Yeah idk, you have to go track all the reasons. I'm mainly familiar with the new communist splits and the us trotskyist splits, of which this is a decent graph of their splits, those some groups are also dead now/do not refer to themselves as trotskyist anymore.
Yeah I've seem that map before, it's pretty neat especially how it tries to give some detail on the nature of the splits. If you have any resources on Trotskyism in the US and their splits I'd be pretty interested.
I do have one on Bolivia, Bolivia's Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in The Andes, as Bolivian Trotskyists were actually very important to the left movement of the country for a pretty long time.
There's also a satire novel about Trotskyists during the fall of the USSR by Tariq Ali that is very funny if you know the people it's alluding to. It's called Redemption.
Haymarket books has a good three volume series on the history of US Trotskyism .
thank you :chavez-salute: