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Haven't seen any recaps but i did see 43% of delegates voted against a measure that would make DSA an actual anti-zionist org: https://x.com/GoodVibePolitik/status/1954581357302042942
It thankfully passed, but you really shouldn't be spending time as an org debating zionists. They should just kick em out
Sounds to me like the resolution includes the power to do exactly that.
It's time for a well needed purge.
It's technically been within the power of the NPC to do it for almost a decade under their expulsion clause. They have just made a point not to because most of their precious "electeds" are Zionists. I guess this resolution and the one that preceded it at the last convention are directives to exercise that power.
I kind of wonder how someone can call themselves a socialist and then support Israel's existence.
Bernie is one of them. A lot of privileged white people who don't care about exploitation from the empire as long as they can reap the benefits of exploitation.
They are racists
Its mostly crackers who believe in settler solidarity
progressive except about Palestine was and still kinda is very normalised position.
They want to keep claiming their precious elected officials without ever holding them accountable.
I actually left in 2024 because they gutted a resolution similar to this first at convention then locally so it's good to see something similar passed.
DSA is full of Zionists which is why I would never work with them at this point
That would've certainly been seen as a DemCent vs Anti-DemCent fight internally. I doubt anyone left in DSA is still personally pro-zionist, but radlib/libsoc attitudes still remain.
Why is it seen as a demcent issue? Because it involves a central structure for disciplining members and branches? What is the central DSA for if not that? Is it just an advertising agency?
Absolutely. The DSA is a big tent and closing the tent risks splitting the organization. DSA is only relevant because its so big which is directly because it is a big tent. We have anarchists, socdems, leftcoms, trots, MLs etc from all across a huge nation sharing the same organization. People are legitimately afraid that if the DSA went fully demcent it completely fracture because there isn't much of an ideological consensus other than "are you a socialist?"
That said the tent should absolutely be closed to Zionists. Most people have come around to enforcing some sort of political line upon national elected officials. But they really don't want national telling them their priorities.
Facilitating, training, intercommunication and providing resources between chapters. The vast majority of DSA local organizers aren't interested in any sort of electoralism and want to focus on direct action and base building. And they're right to think that should be the priority. Even the PSL agrees on that.
Just for clarity: the DSA is absolutely not a party in any sense and no one is considering turning it into a party. DSA resolved eventual make a political party but that would be a separate organization.
IMO only the most deluded electoralist thinks the DSA will lead us through any sort of socialist revolution. But it is laying the groundwork to make that possible. No vanguard party can ever hope to be nationally relevant without that groundwork.