To those of you who think DSA is too lib and that’s why you have not yet joined (hexbear.net)

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Join and make it less lib. It’s that easy.

The only way you’d make it more lib is if you think you’re more lib than DSA 😳 👀

To those of you requesting I move my posts proselytizing people about joining an organization over to /strugglesession I have but one thing to say:

Join an organization

To those who repeat the line “I believe in democratic centralism so I won’t join” I say: so do I. If that’s such a sticking point for you to not join DSA, which organization practicing democratic centralism are you currently a part of?

Do you think Lenin or Mao woke up one day with a perfectly structured organization laying at their feet comprised of only those who held similar beliefs to them? Of course they didn’t. They crafted and cultivated these organizations and revolutionary mindsets for decades before seeing the fruits of their labor. If you aren’t organizing you are not only not a revolutionary, you are a counterrevolutionary. Are you waiting for a perfect movement to be waiting at the foot of your bed one morning instead of putting in the labor to craft one you see as suitably revolutionary? Not to even scold you, but factually your absence from organization based on personal ideology favors only the capitalist and harms only your comrades.

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[-] aaro@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

There might be things you don't like about the DSA, that's fine and valid. But if the left is going to win, we need to fucking cooperate. The DSA isn't perfect, but there's no such thing as a perfect org.

Ask the Floridians and Mainers who's wage got raised if the DSA is too lib.

Ask people from Boulder, CO who are now protected by No Eviction Without Representation if the DSA is too lib.

Ask the Oregonians who now get universal Pre-K paid for by the rich if the DSA is too lib.

All 3 of these were campaigns DSA put in serious work on.

But most importantly, ask the rich how they feel about the DSA. There's no active American org out there (with the possible exceptions of some of the larger unions, who the DSA supports) that has separated more bourgeois from their money.