This guy is as smart as my 5-year-old nephew who completely believed me when I told him babies grow on trees.

  • 🇵🇸antifa_ceo@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    21 days ago

    There are a lot of baby leftists in DSA, especially on the DSA right. In my chapter we are currently dealing with growing factionalism where we have a new caucus that rejects reading any theory of any kind to inform the work they are doing. They have no coherent goals behind “doing the work” as if that’s all we need to do to win power. That’s only half of the equation imo.

    It’s actually fucking insane. Meanwhile my caucus is out here trying to push for a coherent, unified program within DSA so we aren’t like hundreds of small organizations working loosely under the same banner, all backed by theoretical and practical understandings of how you build worker power to push back on this bullshit we have going on in society today.

    Surprise surprise when the group of actual studied, ideological Marxists have a better vision and path forward in mind.

    • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      21 days ago

      They have no coherent goals behind “doing the work” as if that’s all we need to do to win power. That’s only half of the equation imo.

      Probably because “fuck reading books lets actually do something” sounds right in their head. And in mass media thats the way the “hero” functions. Due to a pop-history understanding of like revolutionary/civil rights movements, which seemingly suggest, that to achieve success means doing a lot of big flashy actions after another. The truth is a lot of boring work, planning, and even “manufacturing” the “flashy act”.

      Like Rosa Parks did her famous act of resistance in accordance with the women’s political council, and after 15-year old Claudette Colvin resisted in the same manner, months prior.