EDIT: The original article I posted kinda sucked. I'll keep it here for posterity if people want to read it, but I'll replace it with a link @RedWizard posted with original resignation letter and the PSL internal response. If you want to read just the resignation letter with the PSL criticisms without any preamble, it is here.
EDIT 2: Here is the leaked PSL internal response.
Comment by @chana in the general thread: (Sorry to copy your comment here but it's the only comment I've seen so far on this and it's a good way to start off the discussion, along with summer discussion questions I'll add below)
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Notable resignation and letter from PSL Central Committee member and related fomenting split in Brooklyn over PSL being run as a bureaucratic clique (which many will already be aware of from speaking with various PSL members trying to do more than participate in protests). PSL is good at specific local levels despite the national level dysfunction, and the vast majority of its membership good comrades. But the criticisms certainly ring true to me and are reasonable to cite as existential flaws. There is a bit of clown nonsense from the top on a regular basis (like the call for a general strike, cited in the resignation letter, lmao that is baby liberal idealism stuff).
If you're currently unorganized don't let this stop you from joining, it is more important to be active and learn locally from any non-abusive left space than to do nothing organized.
Discussion Questions:
- There's a lot of PSL fans or members here so what do you think? Like overall on this news?
- Do the complaints have merit, or not? Do some do, and some don't? Which ones? -- If so, what does this mean for the left in the US? What are the solutions and what is the path from here? -- If not, why don't you think so? And what does it mean for the left in terms of factionalism and splitting?
- Do you still recommend the PSL as an organization to join? What about the DSA? Join the Democratic Party? FRSO?
I guess the point where we diverge is that I just don't see the west as the force that will bring socialism to fruitition. Like I see the west as the obstacle to socialism.
This is the point where I think maybe we're just looking at things differently. I don't think we need to do this. Why? Because those socialist movements already exist. They are China, The DPRK, Vietnam, Cuba, and Laos. If we can pull off a functional vanguard in the west before it collapses then great, but we're always going to be the junior partner to a global south led anti-fascist coalition.
In the west sure. But globally? My money is on the PLA.
One final note I want to add. I think the fascists are ALREADY in power. So the idea that we need to be worried about the empire collapsing because then fascists will take over? It doesn't compute for me. The US is already fascist. It kills millions already.