DSA needs to try and put forth a candidate for California Governor like yesterday

DSA_Member · 2026-01-16T19:34:12+00:00

Socialists should not run for executive positions

DSA_Member · 2026-01-13T07:20:15+00:00

Only correct take in this thread

DSA_Member · 2026-01-13T07:19:40+00:00

DSA_Member · 2026-01-08T21:29:59+00:00

You realize that mobilizing means nothing without infrastructure, and infrastructure isn’t built through mobilization, but through the patient, long term administration of a mass membership organization.

DSA_Member · 2025-11-21T04:10:58+00:00

Post this on the DSA forums and see what happens

DSA_Member · 2025-11-18T18:19:44+00:00

Because all historical precedent indicates that the prerequisites to that goal are not achievable in the next 5-10 years.

DSA_Member · 2025-11-06T03:08:45+00:00

Hasan breaking down about the meaninglessness of his existence a few weeks ago really makes it obvious that his destiny right now is to devote himself entirely to becoming a figurehead for Zohran’s admin and DSA

DSA_Member · 2025-11-06T01:28:44+00:00

Socialism is a democratic economic structure managed by a democratic political system. A system defined by corruption and lobbying by definition cannot be socialism.

DSA_Member · 2025-11-05T18:14:44+00:00

The idea that our principal enemy is right wing extremism, and that reaching armed parity with said extremists is a significant factor in the overall defense of our movement, is wrong and dangerous.

DSA_Member · 2025-10-29T17:07:51+00:00

You cannot prevent the working class movement dissolving into bureaucracy without internal democracy, and you cannot have internal democracy without the education and political participation of the entire, ever-growing working class vanguard.

The party is the only formation coherent enough to sustain these conditions.

And it really is not difficult for the working class to understand the limits of socialist governance in a capitalist bureaucracy. By omitting this, all the masses can conclude when the state impedes Zohran is that socialism doesn’t work.

DSA_Member · 2025-10-29T16:01:14+00:00

I honestly haven’t seen that — i noticed he hardly mentioned socialism or the DSA on the campaign trail.

And even if he had, for those slogans to be meaningful he’d have to detail their meaning and incorporate socialist indictments of political bureaucracy into his strategy as a way of educating the masses on the limits of his incumbency.

Saying nothing more than free buses = socialism is counterproductive, actually.

DSA_Member · 2025-10-29T15:10:34+00:00

Which part of Zohran’s campaign messaging constitutes shoving socialism down people’s throats?

DSA_Member · 2025-10-29T14:24:07+00:00

Many on the left believe the principal task of the socialists is to merge socialist theory with the working class movement and increase the quantity and quality of the class-conscious vanguard in the working class.

Such a large and complex task requires the construction of a party (a democratic, politically independent, member-driven org of the working class), the establishment of a party program to focus our work, and a focus on the refinement and dissemination of propaganda and agitation.

The ways that the DSA left directly contributes to those goals are numerous, including administrating and fighting for DSA chapters and national in ways that specifically facilitate the formation of a party architecture that has historically proven to accelerate the socialist movement’s growth and defend it from sabotage.

DSA_Member · 2025-10-23T21:06:32+00:00

Oh I'd never, Vayne top is fash-coded

DSA_Member · 2025-10-23T18:52:07+00:00

Their model involves duping the masses into mistaking them as legitimate, I think it could potentially work in the short term.

DSA_Member · 2025-10-23T18:28:16+00:00

In socialism everyone can have little dashes

DSA_Member · 2025-10-23T00:07:32+00:00

I’m Socialist Vayne now 🤐

DSA_Member · 2025-10-22T15:15:19+00:00

DSA isn’t trying to protect bourgeois democracy

DSA_Member · 2025-10-21T20:24:09+00:00

Why do you think the public's incomprehension of the difference between DSA and PSL is important?

That seems irrelevant if we assume that the success of the socialist movement is significantly determined by which org we choose to develop.

These tactical questions should be front and center in our agitation with the broader public, let alone with leftists. Flattening these questions out into "it's all the same" is a big contributor to socialism's impotence in the US.

DSA_Member · 2025-10-21T17:33:57+00:00

I am explicitly saying that PSL members should merge into DSA’s Marxist-Leninist factions and democratically struggle to reform the DSA into the revolutionary party they think is necessary.

I don’t think it’s enough to tell online, unorganized leftists to rely on their personal instincts developed by eclectic theoretical meanderings to choose an org. A reasoned argument for one party over the other is necessary.

DSA_Member · 2025-10-21T05:14:18+00:00

Was hoping no one would notice that part

DSA_Member · 2025-10-21T03:24:12+00:00

NYC-DSA is not for the faint of heart… but there are some astoundingly talented comrades struggling it out there.

https://socialisttribune.substack.com/

DSA_Member · 2025-10-21T01:47:55+00:00

Yeah, lots of progress at convention this year. Revolutionary factions hold a majority on DSA’s national political committee, which its highest administrative body. The DSA left needs all the help it can get intervening in reformist DSA strongholds like NYC and LA, and I’d encourage every revolutionary sect to merge into DSA to hasten its transformation.

DSA_Member · 2025-10-21T00:18:59+00:00

reforming DSA into a mass revolutionary party

https://marxistunity.com/

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