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I've been in the DSA for a bit over a year and it's been wonderful. We've made meaningful wins for people and are steadily growing. Our chapter is beginning caucus more which is exciting because it means more opportunities to engage with the national conversations and do necessary political education.
The core of my chapter is mostly ML's though we have a right wing contingent that I am hoping we can persuade if we could get some of them to read a goddamn book. There are serious growing Marxist factions on the left of DSA that are gaining a lot of traction quickly and it's an exciting time imo.
Anyway go to some of your local chapters meetings and see what they're doing. An organizer will 100% reach out and talk to you if they are competent. It can be daunting to get started but it is extremely rewarding.
I'm confused. Why would you join the democratic socialists if you're advocating for Marxist-leninism? That's not even big tent thinking, that's "I've decided that you are wrong about the trajectory you want for society and am going to supplant it with my own ideas".
Like, the CPUSA exists. They're a joke right now, mind, but they exist and you could join them. Stand with people who actually want to stand beside you, not just people who think you're on their side but you're lying to them.
I certainly would join DSA, and have been involved in some efforts to launch such an org in my country. Seems that the marxist factions inside DSA have way more vitality and potential than the old national communist parties. Potential for productive splits that give birth to revolutionary mass parties from DSA => leading to a meaningful vanguard seems higher than CPUSA becoming a vanguard worthy of the name. The Bolsheviks were born of a party split amirite?