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.

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    DSA is organized around an opposing principle to Democratic Centralism in the form of internal pluralism

    True internal pluralism is opposed to expelling people who belong to democratic centrist orgs though. DSA isn't a party. It should act as a big tent and nothing more. If you start expelling members because they adhere to the line of some dem cent organisation, that basically just says "we accept diverse viewpoints and praxis but only if they are your personal, individual viewpoints" which isn't really a big tent any more.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It says that you can be expelled for being in a dem cent org. That's a bad rule because that's more or less every communist (who is a communist in practice).