Too often, DSA is dismissed as a purely social democratic organization, and outsiders discount the communist organizing within it. As a Marxist-Leninist DSA caucus, we reject this narrative. DSA is our political home! We in Red Star are communists who believe that DSA is the most effective place to serve
See, now that’s a much stronger claim. As I said to another poster, wake me up when you’ve actually won something, that will be good evidence. As it is now, at least without hard numbers, it’s observationally identical to cope. It’s up to you lot, if you are interested, to produce phenomena that could only be the case if you are right and there is a powerful enough radical constituency. Until then, it will plainly be the better answer for the rest of us that we should focus on organizations that don’t require coups to not support genocide.
I think you’re dismissing quantitative changes because you haven’t seen qualitative changes yet. I understand wanting to wait for qualitative changes to not be skeptical, but as Marxists we also understand that qualitative changes are an accumulation of quantitative changes, and there is very clear evidence of quantitative changes.
See, now that’s a much stronger claim. As I said to another poster, wake me up when you’ve actually won something, that will be good evidence. As it is now, at least without hard numbers, it’s observationally identical to cope. It’s up to you lot, if you are interested, to produce phenomena that could only be the case if you are right and there is a powerful enough radical constituency. Until then, it will plainly be the better answer for the rest of us that we should focus on organizations that don’t require coups to not support genocide.
I think you’re dismissing quantitative changes because you haven’t seen qualitative changes yet. I understand wanting to wait for qualitative changes to not be skeptical, but as Marxists we also understand that qualitative changes are an accumulation of quantitative changes, and there is very clear evidence of quantitative changes.