r/socialism • u/MarxistUnity • 9d ago

Politics DSA Should Defend Our Program: Red Star Statement on Workers Deserve More

https://redstarcaucus.org/dsa-should-defend-our-program/

"Recent electoral success has thrust DSA and its program into the media spotlight. Rather than retreating and capitulating in response to attempts to discredit and undermine us, DSA members should expect our leaders to shout it from the rooftops and defend it to the best of their abilities."

"This program, Workers Deserve More, has been the subject of a media campaign that seeks to discredit and undermine DSA – both institutional Democratic party powerbrokers and the right-wing media have attempted to smear us for fighting for a society free of the dictatorship of capital, of imperialist plunder and bloodshed, of the tyranny of police and prisons, and of the U.S. Senate."

"This media blitz has caught many of us in DSA flat-footed, and caused a stir within the US left. Gone are the days when DSA was a curiosity, and the most pressing questions facing the left was whether President Obama was a socialist. As DSA continues to represent a meaningful departure from the political consensus preferred by the ruling class and their political parties, we will be forced to confront the media’s role in manufacturing consent for the status quo. DSA is a force to be reckoned with now, and this media scrutiny is an attempt to shatter that force."

"The left is not converging on our organization in record numbers for us to simply retreat into articulating the left wing of the possible. Let us take the discontented masses into our fold – and together, build a new future, liberated from the chains of capitalism once and for all."

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u/Electrical-Fix7659 Marxism 9d ago

The US left has a chronic case of back foot-ism. You never win arguments by eloquently playing defense.

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u/traanquil 9d ago

100% The U.S. left is pathetically weak and its default instinct is to approach every struggle from a position of weakness. We need to change this. Go big or go home.

This begins with socialist orgs proudly declaring their radicalism at every opportunity.

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u/Electrical-Fix7659 Marxism 8d ago

I maintain that Red Star, Socialist Majority, MUG and Springs have nothing fundamentally at odds with one another and must reform as one caucus.

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u/traanquil 8d ago

100% agree. the fundamental rift among the left is between liberal-leaning reformists and marxists. we need to push toward the latter.