And yet, since this 2019 article caucuses like Red Star (and MUG) continue to gain an ever-larger foothold in DSA Leadership positions, to the point of directing some of the largest chapters. There is true leftward movement happening in DSA and it’s visible at the chapter level.
Personally I see the DSA kind of like the Social Revolutionaries of the Russian Revolution. There is clearly a principled leftward faction that exists in its midst which is getting more popular however the organization itself is mired with opportunists, and I’m not confident the principled marxists can achieve hedghemonic influence over the entire thing.
A split is going to happen at some point in time, within the next decade I suspect. Whether it’s the opportunists ejecting themselves due to not wanting to conform to a “tankie” political line, or the principled Marxists breaking off to join a valid vanguard party that emerges, I’m not sure. Though historically I’d say the latter is more likely, but the circumstances might end up leading to the former, which frankly would be more beneficial.
I am working through Lenin Rediscovered right now and the DSA base smacks of the group Lenin spoke to then: a disorganized collection of ideologies including, as you said, oppurtunists, but also economists and recent tailist tendencies post-Mamdani. That does mean they are a large base that is most likely to be receptive to ML/MLM ideology and a reasonable group to try to flip vs the working class, which seems to have failed any push, even with the amount of basic education on socialism they have (a la mantras like “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism”) and the imperialist tendencies (now again in the spotlight thanks to Trump).
They’re not called the Democratic Sellouts of Amerikkka (DSA) for nothing.
It’s the same as what the CPUSA and Noam ChomSSKKKy are doing right now (also don’t forget that they used to endorse Hilary Clinton, Genocide Joe and KKKamala HarriSS, also the CPUSA is just a bunch of VauSShite right now).
Now I know that Mao and Hoxha were right…
CPUSA has been doing it since 1930s.
and the conservative faction of CPUSA went on with most dangerous “A-SHIT-P”.
You’re right. CPUSA = Democrats, A"C"P = Republicans (MAGA). Because of this, sometimes I feel that the American Left exists in theory only…
i’ve heard the psl are pretty good
And FRSO too. Both of them support Palestine, the Land Back movement, and they also recognize PRC, SRV, Cuba, DPRK, Laos as Socialist countries today too.
FRSO is not very serious. They’ve been a “pre-party formation” for 40 years and seem to focus on recruiting, but you recruit not through canvassing but through example i.e. having something to show people. On the principles they follow J Sykes way too much, guy is basically the thought leader for the organization all by himself. And not only that but he rejects that the US is settler-colonial still, but doesn’t even understand what settler-colonialism is - except this is now FRSO’s line. He has poor dialectical reasoning and ultimately defends settler-colonialism pretty blatantly despite believing he stands against it.
Okay one more thing about frso because I went digging into my archives to make sure I had this correct, but we used to host sykes’ book (a collection of blog articles he wrote) on prolewiki, someone deleted it, then an frso member asked us to reupload it since they used it in a book club. I was thinking weird that they don’t provide members with a pdf for their book clubs, and the articles are individually available on sykes’ own website. they do sell physical copies - and not boding well if they teach newcomers this as “theory”. there’s more problems on sykes’ writings but nothing that I could substantiate right now.
I’ve been so far lefty since before I was born, that parents gave me a shrink for meth ( or whatever the actual technodope was called) at 8 and choked me with religion and burnt my Mage books. Took me to my early thirties before I found Aghora from Robert E. Svoboda to find The Left Hand God and start working mind back out of their Coded delirium. They think I’m crazy when I tell them thaylt they’re pissing on the seven granduncle’s graves who all fought against the Nazis.
I’m gonna be a Stranger in a Strange Land here real soon I think. I need to read my books again and I doubt I’ll have time unless I can get them to stop snorting CoCain. It’s fucking funny too because they think they do good drugs because they’re legal and don’t go to church anymore.
And no, I don’t mean Cocaine. Same thing really though. That’s basically the same as the church they don’t go to anymore but that’s my fucking point. They’re high as fuck and believe fucking anything. Doesn’t matter really. Belief is the dope snort of a church’s nasal input. Injection if your a rapist priest, of course, of course.
Try Snow Crash.
I’m so facepalming right now. You have no idea the length of this extended delirium is but *I’m the crazy kid with a roller coaster of I. That itself only works because I can regularly murder my ego “ritually” with legal dope often enough that I don’t even need the dope anymore.
You’re not wrong about what you say though. I’ve not come across anyone actually sharing my perspective beyond one. Even myself, everything I hear “left” is even a trickster game that Loki isn’t skilled enough to get us out with He Who Remains and Cthulhu to boot.
I got more but I am fucking exhausted.
