Holding electeds even marginally accountable is bad acktuallllyyy ... This is just so exhausting.

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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The DSA is probably the most relevant socialist political organization in north america, but there's a point C.Derrick Varn makes that I find very astute and is proven by the comments in that reddit post, if the DSA ever adopts a program, regardless of what's in it, it would immediately split

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    its potential is quite untapped to many hexbears here, like right now the marxist group is kicking out the social democrat leadership

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Didn’t the post you’re replying to make the point that if that group obtained leadership and exercised power, it would split?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    if that group obtained leadership and exercised power, it would split?

    I meant more, if it clarified its direction and goal, it would split because it's big enough and does enough different things (or is a vehicle for people to do different things) that people join it for all types of reasons whether that be tenant organizing or electing progressive democrats, so people would probably leave if the org stopped facilitating one or the other

    Still true that it has a lot of potential

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    it really doesn't have the centralization to do anything about that anyway. Its either the marxists taking over or the collaborators

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