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.

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[–] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

So many people in this thread acting like standing up against SA is anti communist or some bs.

Where? This post doesn't seem to be taking any sort of stance against SA, did you read the content of it? Lots of people assuming it does for some reason tho...

Edit: kinda wanna delete this because of how fucked this has gotten since I made this comment. I hate all of this

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  • [–] 15 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    This post is a response to said running cover for the Blake family cult that makes up a disproportionate number of leadership positions. PSL is washed we need to accept that.

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  • [–] 14 points 20 hours ago* (2 children)

    Right so like I said, it doesn't take any stance wrt SA. Not a single mention of that, though it does mention Walter Smolarek favorably who is trying to split the party in a deeply unserious manner. Who served on the central committee himself while conspiring to split the party rather than leaving, and did so not because of a disagreement over the way the party was led or anything to do with misconduct but instead supposedly because he wants to do a different kind of work than what the PSL is committed to (building the base vs building socialist consciousness iirc). Who seems to have pressured Marissa to wait to publish her experience with SA in the party until it was most beneficial for him and his goals.

    For the love of our common goals comrade, please read rather than bandwagoning, and do so critically. Our comrades don't deserve to be accused of claiming that standing up against SA is anticommunist or other such bullshit when they are clearly not.

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  • [–] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    It doesn't change the fact their leadership has repeatedly covered for abusers and fought to protect leadership from accountability. This article may not be about that but is representative of the same core issue that their leadership clique views itself above reproach. This is unacceptable.

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  • [–] 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    Why are you even responding to me? You take a vaguely dismissive position in response to me noticing a problem with how we are discussing and engaging with this and then try to railroad the conversation away from the point I was making.

    Also did you even read the article yet? It isn't about that either, it's about a specific Branch's drama. It attempts to extrapolate beyond that but offers no evidence beyond referencing a document by an obvious wrecker who did engage in SA coverup.

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