I cant emphasize enough how the me of the past used to find the word 'comrade' something like strange off-putting cosplay — but today *every* time I read this passage it moves me. Each added year that I'm a DSA member, its nuance deepens. Comradery was the antidote for my despair
This is just patently untrue. The revolution was spearheaded by a landowning class comprised of merchants, plantation owners, smugglers, etc who stood to financially benefit in the revolution’s success. It was by and large a bourgeois revolution, elite revolting from the elite.
The so-called “one member one vote” scheme to move all DSA decision-making out of meetings and onto the internet is not an expansion of democracy, but an attack on it. Every DSA member has the right to vote, we just have to show up to do it. You can even show up on zoom!
Shane Levett and Stefan Neumayer discuss the newly adopted electoral Principles and Policy of Central Mass and Worcester DSA, covering the content of the chapter's electoral approach and the means by which it was developed. https://t.co/7VEPPJZwxb
WPI is trying to dramatically change the job descriptions of Res Advisors as a union busting tactic. Here's an RA on why their work is important and why they're on strike:
Seeing a lot of people swinging at the likes of @NerdeenKiswani and others who’ve rightfully criticized this kind of stuff who somehow have no smoke even when he’s standing behind someone proudly calling herself a Zionist like what the fuck are we doing
🚨 MAMDANI’S HOSTILE TAKEOVER
Leaked video reveals Mamdani and the DSA's real agenda:
🗣️“We hate the Democratic Party”
🗣️“We need to orient ourselves toward insurrection”
They’ve captured the party, they’re seizing NYC, and now have their sights on destroying America.
While the U.S. blockade continues to punish Cuban families, DSA members are showing another path — one of solidarity, cooperation, and mutual respect. #EndTheBlockade
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I know he and his team - and even many of his supporters - believe this was the best possible statement he could have made, one that they believe centers the devastation inflicted on Palestinians since Oct 7.
But the reality is that to frame an instance of Palestinian violence, occurring within and in response to eight decades of occupation and life in an open-air prison, as equivalent to - or in the same moral register as - those eight decades and the past two years of the Israeli extermination campaign, is genocide apologia.
And Palestinians aren’t even mentioned once. Not once.
"Most societies in the West are not opposed to violence. The oppressor is only opposed to violence when the oppressed talks about using violence against the oppressor. Then the question of violence is raised as the incorrect means to attain one's ends." 7/10
Bernie Sanders can't use his position in the Senate to propose an arms embargo and sanctions on what he now pretends to believe is the Israeli genocide, though he reduces it to "Netanyahu" (see https://t.co/GeKDdfdh1H), but he keeps passing these deranged resolutions with glee:
You don’t have to agree with me, but I come to my political positions from a sincerely held desire to take care of others and improve the world around me. I can’t unknow things and I can’t turn that off.
the Zionist Israeli-US-NATO empire always projects its own actual sadistic genocidal mass pedophilic rape-depravities onto their victims, those they mass murder and rape. Their atrocity propaganda hoaxes are real, but it's what they themselves do:
https://t.co/xKF0M6V8HS Every Zionist accusation is a confession.
"In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery." — V.I. Lenin, 1913
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Little sis laughs and shows a social media post "Why are MLs so buff yet never seen working out?"
Me: whats the punchline?
Sis: there isn't one
(Confused discussion ensues because I read ML as "Marxist Leninist" , but she meant "Male Lead" in romance comics... 🤦♀️I'm cooked.)