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Love seeing lefties attack what should be their allies for not being their particular flavor of left.
I don't know what the makeup of DSA is like these days. There may be chapters that are more marxist-leninist than others.
But the issue with so-called democratic socialism as a label is that it comes with a belief that the capitalist class can be deposed from power by voting them out, essentially. In practice, in the US, it also tends to have problems with not supporting actual socialist projects in the world (such as China).
The reason the "flavor" of it matters is because when we're talking about people who don't support existing socialist projects in the world, or don't take seriously the confrontational nature of taking on an existing entrenched, exploitative, and violent power structure, it's hard to take them seriously as wanting the same things.
Anyway, that is where the dissing comes from.
Begone, yakubian leftist. You're on the wrong server. We don't cater to western chauvinists here.
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Look at this. I lay down a tame, no heat, barely even flavored criticism that you know you're guilty of and your default response is isolationism and petty namecalling.
And you wonder why you have trouble reaching people.
The only people you have reached are social chauvinists who vote for warcriminals with Nazi tattoos and white billionaires who can't call a genocide a genocide.
No heat? Your ideology revolves around denouncing revolutionary socialism and calling actual socialists 'authoritarians', and then you come here and complain about "leftist Unity", that too to the people who came up with democratic centralism, the method of unity among socialists.
Is that not a provocation in your eyes, shitlib?
Who said it was my ideology?
Can't handle the mild sauce OR make a point without projecting. You need to touch grass.
Oh, so you are just an unprincipled chud who came here to stir up some shit.
Go back to your lair, kiddo. The average communist here organizes more in a week than you probably do in a year.
You are so far up your own ass it's kind of noteworthy. The only thing you're organizing is an echo chamber.
Still here, reactionary? Go do something productive with your life.
I would rather live in an echo chamber of principled communists than in a big tent with bigots and opportunists.
Democratic socialists love throwing actual socialists abroad under the bus (e.g. Mamdani on Maduro and Diaz-Canel). They are the ones who reject "leftist unity".
Just that one incident was more harmful than any amount of internet forum squabbles are.