Marxist Unity Group

A group working to unite Marxists in DSA around programmatic communist politics and the goal of a mass socialist party-movement.

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

DSA must develop new democratic structures for members and leaders to engage with our representatives in Congress. Next month, Marxist Unity Group will introduce a resolution to the National Political Committee to revive our Federal Socialists in Office Committee. See 🧵Below:

[nicølina 🪿 @ellonico]

"democratic socialism" is the new "revolutionary social democrat"

[Chanpreet @cpt_singh]

hm not really sure if you believe that though

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

"As all three presenters were quick to emphasize, the denial of universal and equal suffrage and the impediments to majority rule in Florida mirror what is happening at the national level." Check out Comrade @LukePickrell's article about the event:
https://t.co/9QkRZbKS5o

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

ICYMI: Florida is ground zero for the impacts of the racist, undemocratic constitution, Aziz Rana, Richie Floyd, & @OliverALarkin explained in NEC's mass call last week. Nothing short of a new constitution and finishing reconstruction will work to usher in the world we deserve.

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

Join us for a @wellstonism-facilitated discussion with Aziz Rana and Florida DSAers @richiejfloyd and @OliverALarkin leading the fight against anti-democratic, racist apartheid rule. The mandate for socialists is clear: we must finish Reconstruction and demand a new constitution!

[Revmira - Transmanian @Revmira_1921]

My position remains simple. The Road to American Revolution runs through Black liberation. The centering of this question in many ways is the decisive fight for workers power in America as it inherently becomes a fight against all the weight of reaction and oppression in America

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

“Don’t Give Up: A Letter From Delaney Hall”

A letter written by detainees inside the ICE detention center Delaney Hall during a work and hunger strike was published two days ago on May 26.

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

Read "Don’t Give Up: A Letter From Delaney Hall" at https://t.co/HLfwFppP9N

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

We stand in full solidarity with the Delaney Hall strikers and demand that their conditions be met! Every socialist must demand the complete freedom of all our comrades in all detention centers, jails, and prisons. See the demands of the Delaney Hall strikers:

[🍻 Sid, Inheritor of the West @wellstonism]

The grand wager of our project right now, which includes 1) the seizure of executive power and 2) cynicism, some deserved, towards the forces that built 2020, is predicated on the gamble there won’t be another such moment for a while and we will not be caught holding the bag.

[BlackRedGuard ☭ 🇵🇸🔻⛓️‍💥 @OGBlackRedGuard]

“The Left’s failure during the uprising was twofold. Organizationally, we did not build new institutions that could effectively carry the politics of the movement into harsher conditions, and existing organizations like DSA failed to absorb militants activated by street protest. Politically, we were not able to move most participants from a reformist critique of police funding and behavior to a broader political movement against the police state. By the time the leaves turned, the most popular explosion of street militancy in our lifetimes had given way to the dementia of the Biden era. 

It is easy to substitute alternate history for strategic thinking. Since 2020, leftists have spent thousands of hours arguing that more protests, stronger demands, or political education aimed at street militants would have resulted in one or another organization absorbing protesters in the millions. But there is no reason to believe that any change in tactics by the organized Left, which played a marginal role in the movement, would have altered the course of events. To actually position ourselves to make an impact during the next uprising, it would be more fruitful to approach the problem programmatically: what demands would the Left need to win to create a world where there is never another George Floyd or Tamir Rice or Breonna Taylor? What is the minimum program for Black freedom? How does this impact our political practice here and now?”

[tori 🌹🌻 @plantbasedagony]

important read!

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

Read the article here:
https://t.co/JivBfMJpFy

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

New in L&A: Six years after the George Floyd Uprising, Marisa M. surveys political trends around policing on the Left. Both willingness to oppose the political power of the police and a program for Black liberation remain necessary pillars for any socialist electoral project.

[🍻 Sid, Inheritor of the West @wellstonism]

It is tempting to think this, but building a political pole in the first place requires a set of rules, norms, and practices around which we can cohere—I am sympathetic to the criticism that this is putting the cart before the horse, but the cart has to go somewhere.

[🍻 Sid, Inheritor of the West @wellstonism]

If you’re a DSA member, take a look at this resolution in the thread here. I’d love to hear your thoughts—we must make sure this body can become another tool for us to tell the story of how the working class will take power.

[holdenn 🍺 @comradejumpshot]

heat.

[PK Gandakin 🪿 🚩 @pkgandakin]

This seems extremely reasonable and a great way to build structures at a national level to encourage greater political coherence without falling into the trap of treating electeds as potential traitors/hostiles

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

We urge our comrades across DSA to support this resolution next month and offer suggestions for how to improve it! Let's work together to build a Federal SIO committee to cohere and support a Socialist Bloc in Congress! https://t.co/zHq0EHkCLq

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

Check out our SOR Comrades' analysis of Rabb's victory: "DSA’s electoral project is entering a new phase: one increasingly under members’ democratic control and guided by the shared objective of bringing to birth a new, mass socialist party." We need a Federal SIO Committee!

[Springs of Revolution 🌺 @SOR4DSA]

From the streets to the ballot box, Chis Rabb’s triumph challenges a conception of democratic socialist politics arbitrarily limited to expanding affordability, to demonstrating the appeal of socialism rooted in liberatory politics.

More from us here: https://t.co/Hke6nKlB0y

[Springs of Revolution 🌺 @SOR4DSA]

You can learn more about @MarxistUnityDSA's FSIO proposal here: https://t.co/WJQx6z0rsB