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Gramsci Primer & Modern Reflections A foundational summary of Gramsci's contributions to Marxism, and what they can tell us about modern political struggle.

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Mountain Caucus - Points of Unity What Is The Mountain? The Mountain Caucus is a Marxist caucus within DSA that seeks to win a society that can end all forms of tyranny and exploitation. We recognize that the socialists of recent hist...

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i would like to live in a world where AOC can be censured when she does something bad and we can all still be mature enough to work with her when she's doing something good, but who knows if that world is this one or not

depends on what's in it

this is demonic

The same thing happened to these guys happens to politicians when they spend too long in office and forget what they were supposed to be doing there

this guy has a pager emoji in bio and thinks Israel should take Palestine by right of conquest like we're in the fucking Middle Ages

Probably also worth noting that the platform was written years before Trump made USAID a well known partisan issue

Well, yeah, this platform is a couple years old. There are a lot of problems with its wording and structure, although I would stand by most of the policy in principle. Convention is in August so we may well rewrite it.

I don't think Leninists would necessarily be the first to tell you that. There has been a multitude of work reconciling the principles of Leninism with those of democratic socialism, as those things were once one and the same. Read "Lenin Rediscovered" by Lih, or "Revolutionary Strategy" by Macnair.

No nation is 100% self sufficient in the modern age, but the fact that some western countries developed industrial economies centuries ahead of countries in Africa, for instance, should be remedied by helping those countries develop instead of just importing everything.

My point was simply that the US has a vested interest in certain countries not developing certain economic sectors so they remain reliant on US aid. Proverbially, my proposal is that we teach a man to fish rather than just giving him fish. I don't mean we shouldn't help him at all

You know the person who posted this is a fellow DSA member right

CPUSA? Maybe a little bit, but the IWW don't engage in electoral politics

Also, democratic centralism just refers to the practice of binding members of an organization to uphold the results of a vote even if they lose that vote. It's been warped to anti-democratic aims before, but you must know what it is to criticize it.

DSA bylaws doesn't call for kicking out Leninists, it calls for kicking out "members of self-identified democratic centralist organizations". The caucuses that people usually identify as "tankie" caucuses don't practice democratic centralism. In any case, this is an outdated rule.

Yes, and that argument is bad because it places the solution for a systemic problem upon individuals. A nation isn't an individual, it's a collection of people - and it's *good* for less wealthy nations to be self-sufficient, especially when richer nations have a head start on them.

The platform is old and should be revised, that I will admit!

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I honestly don't think it's that bad of a position. We don't want to get rid of PEPFAR, we just want to stop US intelligence from meddling with politics in the global south through propaganda and other selective aid that has the effects of preventing nations from becoming self-sufficient.

The Maoist caucus in DSA aren't campists either for the record, they have a clear position against China's capitalist authoritarianism, just like the domestic Maoists in China (who are banned from organizing). Whatever other problems you may have with Maoists, know that at least.

I genuinely would like to know your definition of entryism. Because I don't think it's "normal socdems or demsocs join DSA, become 'tankies' after years, form caucus" counts.

Also, the Communist Party USA, which is one of the country's biggest "Marxist-Leninist" organizations, has a standing policy of endorsing Democrats in every presidential election to stop fascism, so I think you may want to be more specific in your criticism.

It was never entryism! One of DSA's co-chairs self-describes as a Marxist-Leninist, and guess what? She supported Warren in 2020. Her politics organically drifted toward ML over the years since, after having been a social democrat while *in* DSA.

We endorsed Bernie but that doesn't mean we're bound to share his takes all the time, I love the guy but he can go his way and we can go ours.

Entryism isn't just when a group of people you disagree with join an organization, or when people already in an organization create a subgroup you disagree with. Take that Maoist caucus, for example. All the people in that were in DSA well before the caucus. They weren't entryists, just members.

shes khive they're unhinged

There are no bipartisan bills. This is more capitulation. Stop helping them. Vote out any Democrats who vote with Republicans for anything.

sometimes the east coast machines actually do something for their constituents