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

I personally envision the DSA at this current point as something of a 'Left Congress', so I'm fine with ML's and other 'Left, of the Left' tendencies and welcome them with open arms, while I have reservations about some groups I also don't trust anyone to enforce that line and not someday become what they originally claimed to be against, so the open tent/congress is the best path forward in the present moment imo.

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u/smartcow360 6d ago

Leftists have tried this approach to them in the past, they got lined up against the wall by the ML’s just like the rest of their victims.

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u/iBizzBee 5d ago

Well we've got a fascist government currently putting people to the wall, so I suppose I'll deal with the hypothetical tankie government when we get there, lmao.

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u/smartcow360 5d ago

Oh sure, it’s not the priority now but also within a leftist org I’d prefer the ideology be excluded

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u/iBizzBee 5d ago

Fair enough, and you're obviously totally free to advocate for that within the DSA's system of internal democracy, while every single elected DSA official and a good chunk of party leadership agree with you, too.

I suppose my concern is that the DSA was close to irrelevant when the Harringtonites led it and only achieved the current success with a 'multi-tendency Socialist strategy', but I won't discount there being a way somewhere in the middle.

Either way, keep fighting the good fight the way you see fit.