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E-Money posted:I'm in Brooklyn. I'm an attorney but not currently practicing. In law school i was involved with working on low income tenant issues, but haven't touched it in years. Right now it feels like mounting and supporting opposition to everything that's happening right now (as it arises) is more important than a particular niche sub-issue but if there are existing sub-groups doing good things, I wouldn't be opposed to getting involved. The housing working group has a meeting next Monday that I'll be attending. I'm not yet a DSA member but am very interested in finding out what they're doing as an org on this issue. Maybe I'll see you there!
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The only interesting parts of lacanian theory can be found in Zizek's Pervert's Guides. Actually reading the stuff will make your brain soft.
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empireofcrime posted:A proper statement about Fetonte from the Libertarian Socialist Caucus: http://www.dsa-lsc.org/news/2017/08/08/statement-on-election.html Nailed it, good work LSC
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bump_fn posted:what is a libertarian socialist An anarchist who's worked through their teenage angst and read a book or two.
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ThndrShk2k posted:If you want a Marxist approach am I to assume I was misinformed in my earlier search regarding this subject?
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Aug 10, 2017 01:08
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ThndrShk2k posted:Should we accept how they are or influence change? You're free to give it a try, but I can't think of a bigger waste of time.
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Professor Bling posted:Yeah see this is what I was hoping to hear but I guess "no national platform" is better than "NYC and SF said no so no guns" Im from NYC and I say arm them all!
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Vhak lord of hate posted:i love going to dsa sf meeting that is packed with people interested in socialism after last weekend and spend half of it with the same 4 anarchists arguing about bylaws and rules that have been arguing about bylaws and rules for the entire existence of dsa sf and seeing people's interest slowly die after the tenth time a man with a pony tail whips out his masterful grasp of roberts rules of order. All the Brooklyn meetings I've been to have been really well-run. The facilitators are pros who aren't afraid to shut down folks who abuse the speaking guidelines. In general, they're a mix of progressive stack, step-up/step-back, make a quick point, no comments during Q&A's, and no stupid pedantry or irrelevant bullshit. Most of the discussions happen in breakout groups or at working group meetings anyway, it's not like a significant portion of general meetings is spent in open discussion. I guess this is harder if you're still trying to nail down bylaws, good luck with figuring that out.
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This really isn't helping anything, you know.
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Aug 17, 2017 20:10
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Hope our comrades in ATX can nip this burgeoning cult of personality in the bud.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:My first DSA meeting ever was last night's Austin meeting. I just listened to the audio that was posted earlier and jesus christ no one should be subjected to that kind of ego trip at their first meeting my condolences and i hope you stick with it
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Love too give socdems a platform to punch left against the newly-energized radical currents within the DSA.
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GoluboiOgon posted:Mind if I ask a question about police abolition? When I hear the term, the first thing i think of is Paul Bremer firing all of the Baathist police and officers in Iraq, and how many of the fired Baathists joined ISIS. Obviously the current police system is terrible and must be changed, but I fear that completely eliminating the police will lead to a large pool of unemployed racists used to abusing authority, and create some sort of Freikorps/Klan hybrid. The stated goals in the DSA platform all involve police/criminal justice reforms (and are great), but is police abolition even possible? Bremer was a loving idiot and it's easy to avoid making his mistakes. It's conceivable that most rank-and-file police will be incorporated into the new not-police organization after some retraining. The cops who won't are chiefs, commanders, supervisors, sergeants -- anyone who set or enforced the organizational priorities of the police as it exists today. Those positions would be filled by trusted comrades with a commitment to good "policing" practices and authentic justice. The whole organization would be working with a new mandate, a new rulebook, and a clean slate of institutional practices. Call it reform if you really want to, but you're looking at a fundamentally different institution when all is said and done.
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Stop posting soft-brained Trot bullshit itt
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Venom Snake posted:I get that (Iv been trying to read up on the Russian civil war post 1917) but why do they dislike anarchists? or atleast what is their "stated" reason for disliking them "Most" socialists think anarchists have a bad analysis of capitalism and a bad vision of how to transition to communism. Anarchists generally want to skip socialism as a transitional stage between communism and capitalism by immediately abolishing the state as part of the revolution, and don't want social institutions that even remotely resemble the state under communism. To "most" socialists this is unworkable nonsense that would make the revolution very easy to defeat, and make a society where socialist values can be implemented virtually impossible -- how can you coordinate distribution of resources over an entire country if everything is so localized and voluntary? So basically, striving for anarchists' vision of society (at least in the short- and medium-term) is a big waste of time to "most" socialists Go the opposite direction to figure out why anarchists don't like "most" socialists This is an extremely broad-strokes description but should give you some insight at least. Imo the distinction is pretty meaningless while the left is so weak
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If perfidy is your idea of a revolution, swell. It ain't mine.
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Now to ponder whether I should kill mom or not.
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Vhak lord of hate posted:EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN FACE SLAM MY FOREHEAD INTO A BILLY CLUB. IT'S THE MONTHLY AUSTIN DSA MEETING AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, DANNY FETONTE. I CALL EVERY MOTION AND I CALL EVERY MOTION HARD. MAKING WOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME INTERNET KNOW IT ALLS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP STACK. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY'VE SURVIVED A MALFEASANCE VOTE. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUT LOUD EVERY MONTH TO PEOPLE TRAPPED IN THE MEETING HALL WITH ME AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE THAT SOCIALISTS CAN STILL BE INTERNET BULLIES. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE BYLAWS AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY LOCAL CHAPTER LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING ANNOUNCEMENTS EVERY MONth.
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new comrades! read the abc's of socialism to start de-liberalizing your brain. and if you never read another book, that's okay!
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Larry Parrish posted:I don't think police reform will work either I just don't think we should call police reform abolition I agree, when we say abolition we should mean abolition. otherwise it looks like an edgy publicity stunt
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ThndrShk2k posted:When you work at something for years, really taking the time to master it, you expect a little bit of recognition. So that’s why what’s happening right now in the NPC is really getting under my skin: I am sick of busting my rear end doing Socialist Union stuff only to have masked Twitter dipshits swoop in and get credit as the real Socialists.
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Must be extremely fun and rewarding to be a member of the Professional Online High Schooler Caucus
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"Crime" = insider trading, securities fraud, corporate looting, crashing the economy, busting unions etc etc
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Waiting patiently to hear more about any of these lil nuggets of criticism
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A Typical Goon posted:you certainly do seem to have a lot of opinions on the politics ideology of DSA members, an organization that you readily admit to not being a member of, who's meetings you admit to have not attended... The DSA isn't a secret society whose members are sworn to silence about its activities on pain of death
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Read Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program. It's a powerful repudiation of the kind of sloppy thinking that leads socialists to see liberal institutions as the basis for change. There's more to it, of course, but that aspect is the most relevant for DSA members. 35 pages including supplemental material and can be read in half an hour.
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Huragok posted:A number of chapters just got blasted with this gem: Amazon.com posted:Atheism Unraveled
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Your average person getting into the dsa today would probably be better served by reading bell hooks than Marx, honestly. Sell me on this please
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:I'm not a smart dude by any means but I found Feminism is for Everyone to be a really accessible introduction to basic feminist theory when i was much younger and only had a vague notion of how i thought things were wrong. I think it's a fair assumption that most people joining are libs and are already somewhat conversant in feminism and intersectionality. What they don't understand at all is what socialism is and how it differs from New Deal Keynesian stuff, let alone the history of the movement beyond DSA since 2015. (If they do, no need to read introductory texts, right?) Does hooks ever write from an explicitly socialist perspective?
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Well you can't really expect better from MoCo can you
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Postoyevsky posted:https://twitter.com/mags_mclaugh/status/1083836411390746624?s=19 this is cowardice
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Lightning Knight posted:Relatedly, isn’t Jacobin owned by some rich rear end in a top hat? I seem to recall a scandal last year when they bought a British (?) leftist magazine and the dude fired all the staff with no notice lmao. He bought a defunct magazine's name and archives, and handed the former employees a check for back pay along with a pink slip. It's now Jacobin UK, which is better than being defunct but only barely.
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Syndlig posted:it was actually a still-active magazine, and he straight up lied to the writers by telling them he would keep them on the project if they accepted partial back pay and dropped their claim and lawsuit against then-owner Owen Oysten. this was a requirement of the deal negotiated between Oysten and Sunkara, by Oysten, not offered out of the goodness of Sunkara's heart. he then proceeded to fire the three writers who'd been keeping the publication running by working for free for several years. Hmm yeah that is quite a bit worse than what I had last read
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Marxist Center sounds like an interesting project and I sincerely hope the people running it are smarter than this cause laffo
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I'm an outside observer and don't pay much attention to what the org as a whole is doing these days, but I'm interested in knowing what the big issues at this year's convention will be. Is it too early to tell?
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May 22, 2019 22:23
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That person is shocked and disappointed that DSA is essentially the same organization that it was in 2016, which kind of throws me because it's the exact reason I haven't joined up despite going to a lot of meetings and events.
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It would be cool if the website had any real substance to it, but alas it appears the game went over budget and they had to cut corners
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Taintrunner posted:there’s a pretty good chapo bit about how advertising and design standards have shifted to pastels and twee in order to treat millennial workers like babies. you see it all the time on the subway, it’s trash. Who cares
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Taintrunner posted:they want leadership roles in DSA. this is the first thing you see. so yes, you should care one way or the other. Hmm i think you are giving their strategy of "have a great aesthetic, stay positive, and say nothing contentious or even informative" too much credit. You can't solve their website's problems with a different coat of paint.
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What's the DSA's plans for political education between now and the next convention? I'm not talking solely about reading theory texts and discussing them, I'm also including basic stuff like ensuring loud members can answer the question "what does the word 'strategy' mean and what are some good and bad ones"
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