• TossedAccount [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    LMAO no it isn't, it's run by social democrats and other "progressive" lib reformists. The Trot entryists (by which I assume you mean Reform and Revolution and similar formations) are trying in vain to drag DSA membership to the left from the inside rather than raising their own banner in a similar fashion that the DSA's strategy is trying to drag Dems to the left from the inside, instead of telling their members to run as independent candidates under a DSA ticket.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      4 years ago

      DSA is pretty diverse, but their foreign policy caucus (idk what it's called) had a talk with Nicaraguan "socialists" fighting against the tyranny of the Sandinistas, and educating people on how they needed to stand with them. I believe this was the same year there was a wave of right wing terrorist attacks in Nicaragua, and may have been the same people. So there are feds in DSA for sure.

      • TossedAccount [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I always suspected the DSA leadership's foreign policy was kind of dogshit, they wouldn't have backed Sanders so damn hard if they took a closer look at his ties to the MIC in Vermont. Such an absolute betrayal of internationalism, not ironically the same sort of betrayal that ruptured the 2nd International.

        • HarryLime [any]
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          4 years ago

          The MIC has factories and a labor force in every congressional district and state in the US. It's one of the biggest reasons it's so difficult to go against it- any elected politician doing so risks hurting the jobs of their own constituents.