No surprise given how both Dems and Republicans both keep calling everything they don’t like “socialist/communist/anarchist”. Even though the shit they are talking about at any given time isn’t any of the three. The conservatives are like the washed up “hot-shot” high school football player that just wants to “go back to the glory days” and refuse to either move on or at least help coach new high schoolers. While the centrists/moderates/libs are like beauty contest contestants that like to make very nice statements about “why world peace is important” but have no understanding of how to do anything beyond surface level shit. Both of them seem to only agree that they want to stay in the way of the rest of us that are trying to put actions to our words.
Socialist Alternative may not be everyone’s cup of tea (I personally like them though am not a member), but they still have the will to fight. Many DSA members are as well, but this caucus and the more upper levels of leadership/membership have lost the will to fight (unless it is to attack the left). They have learned all the wrong lessons and are corrupted by the very Dem party and other centrists that keep the working class oppressed. Maybe the DSA can at least be a place for new anti-capitalist leftists to get their toes wet while learning basic stuff. But unless a much more militant and socialism focused membership takes back power from these clowns. The current DSA may just keep being a weird “allowable” wing of the “Blue no matter who” crowd for the Dems. Fucking sad to see such gaslighting.
I wish they knew what that term meant. In this context, “ultraleft” would also mean siding against the unions because they’re not revolutionary enough.
We’ve had this after a strike. Union negotiates a deal. The ultra leftists leave because we didn’t hold out for FALC. And now they gladly cross the picket line. Baffling.
the term “ultra-left” has been misused by liberals
No surprise given how both Dems and Republicans both keep calling everything they don’t like “socialist/communist/anarchist”. Even though the shit they are talking about at any given time isn’t any of the three. The conservatives are like the washed up “hot-shot” high school football player that just wants to “go back to the glory days” and refuse to either move on or at least help coach new high schoolers. While the centrists/moderates/libs are like beauty contest contestants that like to make very nice statements about “why world peace is important” but have no understanding of how to do anything beyond surface level shit. Both of them seem to only agree that they want to stay in the way of the rest of us that are trying to put actions to our words.
Socialist Alternative may not be everyone’s cup of tea (I personally like them though am not a member), but they still have the will to fight. Many DSA members are as well, but this caucus and the more upper levels of leadership/membership have lost the will to fight (unless it is to attack the left). They have learned all the wrong lessons and are corrupted by the very Dem party and other centrists that keep the working class oppressed. Maybe the DSA can at least be a place for new anti-capitalist leftists to get their toes wet while learning basic stuff. But unless a much more militant and socialism focused membership takes back power from these clowns. The current DSA may just keep being a weird “allowable” wing of the “Blue no matter who” crowd for the Dems. Fucking sad to see such gaslighting.
The natural consequence of them masquerading as “socialists” and “Marxists” (don’t laugh!)
I wish they knew what that term meant. In this context, “ultraleft” would also mean siding against the unions because they’re not revolutionary enough.
We’ve had this after a strike. Union negotiates a deal. The ultra leftists leave because we didn’t hold out for FALC. And now they gladly cross the picket line. Baffling.