What's New: America Has a Long and Storied Socialist Tradition. DSA Is Reviving It.
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http://socialistproject.ca/go3440.jpgWhen a thousand socialists from across the United States gathered in Chicago over the weekend for the biennial convention of Democratic Socialists of America, DSA National Director Maria Svart declared, 'What we’re seeing today is historic: the largest gathering of democratic socialists in an era.' Since the 2016 election, Svart is delighted to report, 'tens of thousands of democratic socialists have come together to build a future for this country in which everyone has the right to a decent job, a good home, a free college education for their children, and health care for their family.
More...This shouldn't be in the History forum.
That said, I'm waiting for the DSA to adapt the pre-WWI SPD model to American conditions. I'm waiting for a DSA-organized network of food banks, for example.
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This shouldn't be in the History forum.
Where do you suggest I move it to?
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That said, I'm waiting for the DSA to adapt the pre-WWI SPD model to American conditions. I'm waiting for a DSA-organized network of food banks, for example.
Hmmmm, I happened to come across a fairly recent local DSA-sponsored anti-privatization 'town hall' around the threatened partial privatization of a municipal public library, but I haven't incidentally seen much else.
I really don't think that what you're suggesting is a proper function for a leftist political group -- it lets the government off the hook, when centralized public services really should be *expanded*, cutting against cutbacks.
The DSA is a capitalist organization, they have no true interest in workers power. Their strategy of organisation is not the building of mass movements but the tagging along of social democratic movements, of which they are themselves social democrats. It amazes me why so many people support the DSA, join an actual communist party, you might respond with "lenin built himself in a soc dem party" but did he really? Because at that time social democrats were revolutionary. Not to mention that even if the DSA did support a revolution they wouldn't know how to have a proper party structure to weed out bourgeoisie counter revolution and have an iron grip dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Where do you suggest I move it to?
News & Ongoing Struggles.
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I really don't think that what you're suggesting is a proper function for a leftist political group -- it lets the government off the hook, when centralized public services really should be *expanded*, cutting against cutbacks.
I agree with your latter statement, but not your former. The pre-WWI SPD provided many services which "let the government off the hook," but the German worker-class movement for itself was developed in this manner.
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News & Ongoing Struggles.
Done.
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I agree with your latter statement, but not your former. The pre-WWI SPD provided many services which "let the government off the hook," but the German worker-class movement for itself was developed in this manner.
Okay, good point -- I'm thinking Black Panthers myself. I would say if it's 'internal' to the political organization, and obviously necessary, then there's no point *not* to do it. Specifically politicizing the issue for the government to do it would be reformism, anyway, but it seems like that could result from state 'compromises' in the face of more-militant demands and revolutionary activity.
I think that one of the main reasons of why social-democratic politicians in USA are more powerful, than socialist politicians that are far to the left, that stay far to the left and loyal to marxist basic theories. Is that the social-democratic left has more economic power, than the left that is loyal to marxism. The leftist organizations that are followers of marxism do not have the necessary resources to create a TV channel (like Free Speech TV) which is good but Free Speech TV is a social-democratic alternative news source, not a socialist news source
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The DSA is a capitalist organization, they have no true interest in workers power. Their strategy of organisation is not the building of mass movements but the tagging along of social democratic movements, of which they are themselves social democrats. It amazes me why so many people support the DSA, join an actual communist party, you might respond with "lenin built himself in a soc dem party" but did he really? Because at that time social democrats were revolutionary. Not to mention that even if the DSA did support a revolution they wouldn't know how to have a proper party structure to weed out bourgeoisie counter revolution and have an iron grip dictatorship of the proletariat.