I don’t understand why there are 15000 caucuses within DSA each with its own set of brainworms. It seems like a black hole for the energy of people wanting to organize.
It seems like a black hole for the energy of people wanting to organize.
That’s because it is. “Big tent” organizing has very limited utility for exactly this reason. North Star is a fringe caucus, but it doesn’t matter, because having institutional discipline that places limits on just how fringe you can be would be too much like “democratic centralism” and threaten the big tent. Never mind that the DSA is actively hemorrhaging members right now, which is literally the only reason to adopt a big tent strategy in the first place: growth.
I don’t understand why there are 15000 caucuses within DSA each with its own set of brainworms. It seems like a black hole for the energy of people wanting to organize.
That’s because it is. “Big tent” organizing has very limited utility for exactly this reason. North Star is a fringe caucus, but it doesn’t matter, because having institutional discipline that places limits on just how fringe you can be would be too much like “democratic centralism” and threaten the big tent. Never mind that the DSA is actively hemorrhaging members right now, which is literally the only reason to adopt a big tent strategy in the first place: growth.