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I've seen that the party walked back the ban on democratic centralism, which was not really enforced anyways but is a positive sign of the increase in influence of Red Star, MUG, and Reform & Revolution, who are to my knowledge the 3 demcent caucuses.
If that's true, I think it's fantastic as far as nearly-just-symbolic gestures go, since it indicates a conscious change in direction to having less direct hostility toward MLs.
Yep, I agree! Definitely a good sign, even if it doesn't achieve much for the DSA (no way to know yet, it was a symbolic repeal after all) it does mean that the USian progressives are becoming more comfortable with MLs and accepting of our tactics.
It was never a ban. You could be expelled for being in a DemCent org but that was only to prevent hijacking and splitting.
Its also not a party and a huge number of active members don't want it to be a party. They would rather it be solely a vehicle for direct action and mass movement building and shun all electoralism.