It’s not a matter of characterization that DSA’s founders were explicitly anticommunist, and that the bylaws still have practicing democratic centralism as an expellable offense.
Oh, yeah, I agree it was founded as explicitly anticommunist. Those folks are in northstar, a tiny caucus that people don’t take seriously. You’re allowed to practice demcent, you’re just not allow to explicitly say you’re demcent. You can even explicitly say “We are doing this thing (demcent)” so long as you don’t use the magic words “democratic centralist”
I don’t think this is a fair characterization- there are open MLs serving on the national political committee, including one cochair.
It’s not a matter of characterization that DSA’s founders were explicitly anticommunist, and that the bylaws still have practicing democratic centralism as an expellable offense.
Oh, yeah, I agree it was founded as explicitly anticommunist. Those folks are in northstar, a tiny caucus that people don’t take seriously. You’re allowed to practice demcent, you’re just not allow to explicitly say you’re demcent. You can even explicitly say “We are doing this thing (demcent)” so long as you don’t use the magic words “democratic centralist”