This vibes anecdotally with my local chapter. In the face of overwhelming membership solidarity with Palestinian liberation, the social imperialist reactionaries are purging themselves.

45 points

buh-byeeeee

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My revolution will end when I am put against the wall for being anti-revolutionary. This is good.

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73 points

I started reading thinking this was someone that’s pro-Palestine upset about DSA being too pro-Israel. Pleasant surprise to see that it is instead just a succ-dem purging themself.

DSA is getting better? Weeks where decades are happening?

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They’re likely trying to not alienate their POC members and become a caricature of the Democratic Party Lite for White Guys

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Same…I was reading this expecting something quite different

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78 points

DSA’s National Political Committee did not agree with the two most prominent democratic socialists in American public life.

doesn’t really seem like a huge dunk on the DSA tbh

knowing Israel@will retaliate- do you get that they don’t give a FUCK about Palestinian lives???

damn silverman, what if the israeli military simply… didn’t retaliate? is it really solely on the prisoners inside the concentration camp to break the cycle of violence, even as that violent cycle is being continuously engineered by the guards?

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66 points

Also, in any socialist organization worth its salt the direction should be coming from the ground up, not the organization acquiescing to a couple of high-profile nominally socialist figures.

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32 points

nominally

That’s a word carrying a huge load for those liberals, if you’re talking about who I think you’re talking about

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If words were materials we could build a space elevator with this shit. Would make a lot of bazinga brains happy

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30 points

The DSA has constitutional measures to undercut structures of democratic centralism, so it shouldn’t be surprising that the liberal administrators want to be able to steer it as they please.

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woah, you’re starting to sound like an Authoritarian Democratic Centralist

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102 points

But they remained united in one overarching shared aim—to take a well-meaning, not particularly well-organized, and essentially social democratic organization still committed in practice to the original DSA vision of creating “the left wing of the possible,” and reinvent it as the mass vanguard party of the proletariat that somehow they had never been able to pull off while operating under their own banners of deepest red.

Founding member of popular socialist group doesn’t know definition of socialist.

Yup, that’s America.

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“You made my book club political!”

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25 points

Generous of you to assume this lib reads (Harry Potter doesn’t count)

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No one actually reads in bookclubs, they just gossip

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