Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:02AM
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The DSA is a mix. It has grown in leaps and bounds, but before it did that it was this kind of small social democratic organization with a kind of unique politics that came from Michael Harrington, and was more interested in being a bit of a left wing lobby inside the Democrats.
With the rise of Bernie Sanders and a new generation of people getting into socialist and left wing politics, it became quite a bit broader and larger and vibrant. And my impression is it became of a centre of gravity for other left tendencies in the US to coalesce.
There's quite a few different groupings in there these days. I don't think you can make a broad generalization like you did here.
Apologies for the broad generalization (as I said, correct me if I'm wrong, and I stand corrected here). That being said, if what you say is true, it's a pity that either the main stream media's reporting doesn't reflect that diversity or that the louder voices don't leave space for the rest of viewpoints.
Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:34PM
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IIRC up-thread I wrote complaining about "woke" leftists who are "three times as strict on culture-war issues as on economics", and I was referring precisely to today's DSA. As a supporter of the Harringtonite social-democratic class-struggle approach, what the org has become kind of disgusts me.
Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by orthecreedence on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:22AM
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Agreed. I'm a far-left (libertarian) communist in America, and from what I've seen/read, the DSA is effectively the slightly-left wokish arm of the Democratic party. Think "public healthcare" with a big dose of "what are everyone's pronouns?!"
They're more concerned about trigger words and identity politics than dismantling capitalism.
Edit: equality+equity.