For whatever it means for you comrades, my former branch is absolutely falling apart. Leadership has had to be constantly engaged with comrades 1:1 to get them to stay or to not leave for other projects or lifeboat groups who're trying to keep party members; and it means a ton of people who wanted to do other things are just burning out like flies. My local branch has, I think, tipped right overboard into some extremely inexcusable tactics and behavior; and my disappointment is immeasurable.

I understand I'm posting about this a lot, so, Mods or Admins feel free to tell me to stop, I just want this to be on people's radars so bad. This hasn't really hit the mainstream "left" yet, I haven't seen people even locally who've taken an anti-party stance for a long time (correct or not) talking about this.

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[–] 9 points 5 days ago

the thing is quitting an org doesn't have to be final, and it also certainly doesn't mean you have to burn all the relationships and connections you made there which could reformulate into something new. sometimes membership bleeding rapidly is the only way rank and file can actually concretely communicate and enforce that there's a serious problem. with leadership that have conveyed a disinterest in internal democracy and a misogynistic, callous disregard for cadre safety any of the more acceptable forms of internal struggle are just way too easy to write off and misdirect from.

your perspective is a legit one, just offering a countervailing POV from my own experiences with PSL.

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