80
PSL: To Our Comrades (Rhode Island PSL) (shawarmarxist.substack.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
131 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hello, it's me again

This is another article that's been going around. I talked to some comrades up in Rhode Island and apparently the author of this kind of has some eh stuff going on and was actually kind of a jerk but still here's more kind of evidence of what's going on.

Notably one thing is that they say that the PSL Miami branch is dissolved. I don't know like anything about this.

It kind of feels like live archaeology at this point, just trying to archive and document the kind of discussions that have been going on. I honestly really have incredibly little faith in the party to continue to survive and end up being the party that we need. I think a new party is clearly going to need to form.

If you have any thoughts or additional points of information that can be used to, like, bring together the understanding of what went wrong and what's been going wrong, please put it below.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 35 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The leaders in PSL, whom you are so quick to dismiss as ineffective, corrupt, and needing to be replaced — every single one of them is currently facing the threat of state repression head on.

If they were "serious" like you describe, perhaps they wouldn't run cover for molestation because, even if we completely ignore things like personal compassion, it creates a catastrophic liability. The only threat they are facing head on is that one of their buddies loses their power. I assume I don't need to argue to you about why the direct perpetrators aren't "serious".

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
    •
  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Really disappointed in hexbear users rushing to fedjacket anyone pointing this out.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's not fedjacketing to point out that the feds are openly and explicitly targeting the PSL, and not just the PSL but in fact the specific leaders that everyone is calling to be removed and expelled. That doesn't mean that everyone participating in the discourse is a fed, certainly not even most. But give me a fucking break, state repression is real. NSPM-7 is real.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago*

    if i were j edgar hoover i would be participating in every "side" of this controversy. i'd also have my agents create the controversy by doing what police do best: protect their friends from the consequences of their own behavior by lying, intimidating, and creating "official channels" that do nothing besides maybe shuffle people around sometimes. i've posted this article more times than i can count but they can't possibly be facing the threat if they are the threat.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    So, you're saying they aren't getting congressional subpoenas? You're saying organizers aren't getting stalked, surveilled, and arrested baselessly? Stop talking out your ass; no investigation, no right to speak.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    That is, in fact, not what they said. You've done a shit-tier straw man, but why? Their point was that the federal pressure was being used to deflect organizational and nepotism issues. Not that it doesn't exist at all.

    The way you've mischaracterized this person's post has, in at least my mind, completely undermined your entire premise. You should consider deleting this reply.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    The only threat they are facing head on is that one of their buddies lose power.

    This is an explicit rejection of the objective fact that they are facing congressional subpoenas and coordinated right-wing media campaigns against them.

    Never mind that "their buddy" offered to resign without protest immediately. And after that was rejected, not by the CC but by the victim, did in fact resign immediately when the victim expressed that she was no longer satisfied with the original resolution.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •