DSA chair sounds like a cursed job NGL. They have basically no enforcement power over most of what the org does since chapters are so independent. You want DSA to be associated with social democracy well too bad the Liberation caucus just posted about how based shooting Israeli government officials is and is calling for a DSA red guard. You want a proper revolutionary party? Well too bad New York has decided one more elected will get the job done.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm starting to see the advantages of a Democratic Centralist party structure like PSL's. I'm surprised there isn't a more democratic centralist Dem Soc org. I don't see the contradiction between a reformist path to socialism and democratic centralism, but maybe there is one I'm too ML to see. But I guess they're trying to be a big tent socialist thing. It's certainly got them numbers and some officials they can say they've elected, but that's about it.

Maybe we should just turn the DSA into the US version of the International or whatever that USSR organization of different socialist parties was lol. Just split it up into a bunch of more local parties all over the US. I guess it would probably lose some of the power it still has, though.

[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe we should just turn the DSA into the US version of the International or whatever that USSR organization of different socialist parties was lol.

Functionally this is how DSA actually works. Most members are uncaucused but the caucuses run things and are quite rigid with their discipline, functioning like small parties in their own right in much the same way there were multiple factions of the RSDLP.

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