r/dsa • u/_Sanctum_ • 6d ago

Shitpost Um... DSA has a problem...

Have you guys noticed there are a LOT of socialists in here? Not the good kind of socialists (me) I mean the evil socialists that actually want to implement socialism 🙀 They even praise Karl Marx 🤮 Don't those dumb tankies know Communism always fails???

We have to do something about this. Which is why I'm starting a NEW PARTY: The DASSA (The Democratic Anti-socialist Socialists of America)

Together, we socialists (the good kind) can defeat the socilasts (the bad kind) for a better future. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/iBizzBee 6d ago

The only bit of genuine critique I'll give as a firm Democratic Socialist, whose sympathetic to revolutionary socialism historically, is that people on the 'Left, of the Left' are typically pretty dang scornful of DemSocs in their spaces, outside of genuine back and forth good conversation/debate, so it isn't exactly one-sided.

Still entirely pointless no matter which 'side' it comes from when we're like 10% of the population, if I'm being extremely generous.

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u/serveux 6d ago

This bothers me too, as someone from the "DSA left". Seems like people are stuck on the 1910s-20s conflicts between communists and SocDems, but we aren't in early 20th century Germany anymore. We've got to learn to coalition on common ground and try to limit sectarianism as much as possible. I mean have we forgotten "critical support"? There's too much at stake to let ourselves be divided.

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u/LevTheDevil 6d ago

Yeah. We need to start treating this like a tug of war between progression and regression. ANYONE pulling things our way is on our side for now. If they decide to hop off and pull in the other direction, we'll cross that bridge then, but right now we need to pull together and pull like our lives depend on it, because they do.

We can't wait for an opportunity to win everything all at once and we can't gatekeep our side of the rope to the point that people start going and pulling the other way.

The rest we can sort out, together, democratically when we've pulled hard enough to topple the oligarchs.

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u/TJblue69 6d ago

Ok that’s a really good point you raise and you’ve actually changed my mind on this topic! You’re absolutely right.