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One of DSA's co-chairs (highest elected leaders of the org) is a member of the caucus that wrote the "Do you commend Hamas?" article.
That is really cool, but let's not pretend that DSA as an org isn't often times extremely lib and that any actual communist party should never find themselves to their right. Did anything ever happen to those DSA caucus leaders who snubbed the president of Cuba and went to meet with the Gusano opposition instead?
DSA has major problems. However, in its defense, I'll quote myself from another comment in this thread:
You cite actions taken by significant elements of DSA that are bad. I agree this is concerning. However, structurally DSA has greater capacity to critique this due to its internal democracy (which still needs improvement). I'm not sure any other left formations in the US have this capacity developed to the same level.
The lack of any centralism alongside that internal democracy leads to two major structural issues:
An obsession with democratic forms and process that impede the org's ability to respond quickly to changing situations. My local DSA, with whom I have a good working relationship as a PSL member, has to go through an approval vote process for every single action and endorsement. They have failed to carry out this vote on time on multiple occasions, thereby missing the opportunity to participate.
Self-sabotaging factionalism. DSA is formed of many formal internal factions with often diametrically opposed political objectives. These factions can and do openly oppose and defy the democratic decisions of the organization. They create hostility and tension between comrades and prevent the organization from holding or carrying out a political line. And by allowing such open opposition, the democratic decisions have no enforceable weight, and thus the democracy exists only in form, not in practice.
My local DSA is full of good comrades doing good work, but the organization hinders that rather than empowers it.
My impression is that their party leadership is a little lib but DSA has actual young people pushing it to be more radical. I know people my age in YDSA but today at a rally when I saw a CPUSA guy and started making fun of him none of my friends knew what CPUSA even was. And they were literally all socialists involved in other orgs.