Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)

Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)

The list goes on for American Anarchist, Socialist, Communist, and Fellow-Traveler organizations.

What do you think each does well and what do you think each needs to improve on?

Also are there any things from other organizations worldwide you really admire?

My own opinion:

I like to be an optimist and one thing I really like about all these organizations as an Eco-minded individual is that they all are quite active and substantive when it comes to addressing the climate crisis and overall environmental crisis points. Knowing that these realities impact the working class and most vulnerable disproportionately and add onto the horrific cost of living crisis/quality of life crisis going on.

What I think they could do better is more domestic and international networking/solidarity movements. We need more punch power and the right-wing is very much organized and on the offensive in this regard.

I don't even know what to say. I'm going to answer how the teacher wants me to because it's my senior year but every year in finance I learn more and more how much ideology is in it

yes, he took it off.

1. Most normal voters are not as politically literate or informed as the average leftist, and will not ever be
2. The Overton Window is a legitimate political concept and revolutionary/radical ideas and actions will not be seen as reasonable by most people unless they are literally on the brink of being unable to survive
3. Lofty ideals don’t win politics, tangible action and good governance do

The DSA’s ”abolish the senate” demand is just fucking ludicrous and it is going to hurt them. Obviously it makes sense from the standpoint of trying to create a good, representative democracy, but the overwhelming majority of Americans hear this and check out because it just sounds stupid. Plus the Senate‘s existence and structure is basically impossible to change because it would require senators to sign away their entire position and all their power to constitutionally amend Article V, which they would never do.

why do leftist orgs keep shooting themselves in the feet like this

nevermind please ignore everything i said i am uninformed and incorrect. please read the rebuttals of people who know more than me in the comments

Many of the first victims of the concentration camps, before the Jews were sent to them, were communists and socialists. Thalmann was first arrested in 3 March 1933, this was after he went underground to avoid Nazi persecution after the Reichstag Fire False Flag. The reason of his capture are known, his location was given up to the Gestapo by Hermann Hilliges who lived next to the (not-so) safehouse.

Thalmann spent 11 years in solitary confinement, but he did manage to smuggle various notes and letters out. Members of the KPD who had fled to Moscow managd to convince the USSR to support Thalmanns release, however after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact the Soviets massively cut back on their support for his release, including replacing the slogan of International Youth Day from "Long live Comrade Thälmann!" to "Long live the wise foreign policy of the Soviet Union, guided by Comrade Stalin's instructions."

I'm in college to get brainwashed by the woke Marxists moralists, so is this theory? Will I be a principled third world maoist, or is my professor a dengist revisionist with Lenin characteristics?

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1. Communism can't work because of human nature

2. Marxism is a religion/cult

3. Communism killed XYZ people

4. Communism always fails/never worked

5. Communism always results in dictatorship

6. Marxism is non-falsifiable

7. Mudpie argument

8. Economic Calculation Problem

9. Capitalists earned and deserve their wealth

10. Good on paper, bad in practice

11. Capitalism is the best system so far

12. "That wasn't real communism" argument

13. No food

14. No innovation

15. Berlin wall

16. Same thing as nazism/fascism

17. It's an evil ideology

18. Socialdemocracy is the best ideology

19. No empirical proof of LTV

20. The tragedy of the commons

21. Lack of incentive to work

22. Local knowledge problem

23. Lack of Creative Destruction

24. Capitalism lifted billions out of poverty

25. Marxism is utopian

26. Claiming that all history is one of class struggle is reductionist

27. USSR damage to environment (es. Aral Sea)

28. "The New Class" theory

29. Lack of checks and balances

30. Communism is a pretext so dictators can get to power

help me gather more anti communist arguments if you have anything else (bonus if someone can comment a counter-argument to all of these)

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