Saving a Leftist College Organization?

[norwegianwood90]

First, I apologize if this is the incorrect forum for the topic.

I am currently co-president of a college organization, the Progressive Student Association. After several years of inactivity, a comrade and I were trying to make the group a pan-leftist organization for communists, socialists, and anarchists. Over the course of the semester, however, such a vision for the organization is slowly being eroded by "progressive" liberals who in essence want to support Obama's re-election.

Do any comrades have advice on how I can (at least try to!) stop this from happening?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Kick the liberals out, they arent leftist.

[Drosophila]

Why not just name it the "Communist Club" or something?

[Renegade Saint]

if you have a radical majority, issue resolutions denouncing Obama and the Democrats. They'll leave of their own accord. If you don't have a majority... well, you're the vice president. Hopefully that means something.

[Ostrinski]

Purge the liberals. Do this by creating an organization program that outlines the political positions of the association, one of the points being anti-parliamentarianism.

[norwegianwood90]

if you have a radical majority, issue resolutions denouncing Obama and the Democrats. They'll leave of their own accord. If you don't have a majority... well, you're the vice president. Hopefully that means something.

We're trying to restart the group and make it active again. The problem is that at this point everyone is a "co-president," which makes the title essentially meaningless in regard to other members of the organization. Genuine leftists sadly are in the minority. I'm the only revolutionary socialist. Another individual is an anarcho-communist. A third individual claims to be a communist but nonetheless associates with Democrats on the grounds of "lesser-evilism." Most of the other members were or still are associated with our campus' branch of College Democrats.

I also did not decide upon the name of the group. I simply inherited it. From what I've been told, the group was formed in 2002 in response to the lead-up to the US invasion of Iraq.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Break away and start your own group while still maintaining a battle within this group in an effort to propagate, might be an option.

[l'Enfermé]

A Trotskyist Entryist! MLs, grab your ice picks!

I joke.

[marl]

Work on them. Make them join our side. Debunk their pro-Obama counterarguments.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

This is the problem with groups that don't exist to carry out a concrete task. If you want a genuine revolutionary organization, begin with some sort of revolutionary project, and organize around accomplishing it. Embark on organization for organization's sake, and you'll end up with the form of organization ideally suited to that end (pandering useless liberal shit). Back to the drawing board, comrade!

[Zealot]

Institute a purging or publicly break with them and start a different group with a name like Revolutionary Student Association. Being progressive doesn't make people revolutionary and these so-called progressives shouldn't have been allowed to enter in the first place. Otherwise you could try convincing them that Obama is an imperialist tool doing the bidding on behalf of the bourgeoisie. But good luck with that

[Drosophila]

Even if he was able to convince them that Obama is an imperialist, they would probably just resort to supporting the Green Party or something.

[Ocean Seal]

Fuck that group start your own. Agitate, and the rest is history.

[Binh]

Start organizing Occupy-themed events and grow the club. Prove that your methods and politics are better than theirs. Urge the liberals to join the College Democrats if they want to campaign and point out that Obama hasn't governed as a progressive.