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What are people’s critique of the DSA? Especially those chapos who are members.
For me, it’s that they don’t really seem to have a decent education program (partly because of how big tent it wants to be) so you have a lot of people who identify as socialist but can’t really express what those terms mean. IMO, the DSA should be facilitating the ‘progressive’ to ‘educated anti-capitalist’ pipeline. I dunno. Maybe I’m wrong or not paying attention.
DM me if you’re interested in developing such an education program (for fun). I’ve been doing it as a side project, and ideally we could have some sort of “khan academy of socialism” down the line. I’m not particularly knowledgable, but it would be great to round up people with expertise in historical/theoretical topics or (like me and whoever else) people who are willing to research on their own time and develop a cirriculum/content.
Anyone else can hop in too if it sounds like an interesting project.
I’m too uneducated myself to be any use, but I figured an org with 100k members could at least make it easy to get a basic reading list or something.
My biggest criticism is that DSA officials are not explicitly accountable to their local orgs as it relates to every single on of their votes, cosponsoring of bills, who they hire as staff, endorse and so on.
Every single one of these sorts of decisions should be made by committees within the broader org, and DSA elected officials should formally just be vessels of the org itself rather than individual actors.
Essentially, I just disagree with horizontalist organizing for random politicians who view the whole thing as a career move rather than a 100% commitment to the desires of the org and every step of the way.
