Everyone’s always talking about PSL, SRA, DSA, RR, CPUSA, and I’m just over here like “I just wanna grill for god sake!”
There’s a million little random leftist organizations with slightly different goals and ideologies, but which one should someone looking to, in the words of Father Matt, ‘log the fuck off’ go to? Which ones are crank warehouses? Which are honeypots? Which are full of libs?
Bitch and complain about your least favorite orgs and shill for your favorites here. Reply to others telling them that their org is full of libs and FBI agents. Etc.
EDIT: also anyone with a specific recommendation in the Quad Cities area in Iowa/Illinois definitely drop me a line
I wanna make fun of you for being a lib but you’ve literally done more politics than like 90% of people on this website so good on you honestly
I really hate city subreddits lmao they’re always the most CHUDdy places on the site
Not that anyone is asking, but I used to go to meetings for the local Dems. Without me, the average age was probably 75. People would ask why no young folks were there. I said that if you want young folks, you need to support Bernie. They ignored me so I stopped going. (One lady thought that young people are huge fans of Beto lol). I wish we had an org where I live but this place is very very rural and so many left-leaning people here are also hardcore fucking anti-vaxxers. It drives me insane.
Edit: also the local dems have been run by the same handful of gerontocrats FOREVER and they will only offer token support to any leftist candidates who actually win their primaries.
Seems to me like that’s how rural local politics works everywhere; a cadre of fossils who essentially form an affinity group just control everything and shut everyone else out. Fight fire with fire, form your own circlejerk vanguard, take over
This was actually one of the little-known objectives of Our Revolution starting in 2017. Given their limited reach, they were actually wildly successful, imo. Anyone who says, “you can’t take over the Democratic Party” probably doesn’t even understand the mechanics of how you would even do it.
Check out the archive of their site for the project: https://web.archive.org/web/20180105021240/http://transformtheparty.com/
At the end of the day, it’s not that big of a deal, because the party apparatus is more or less vestigial; it has almost no power. The party is mostly run by the elected public officeholders or their various committees. Political “parties” in the USA are bizarre quasi-public election apparatuses.
You should’ve ran for precinct captain. You’d actually get a vote in the local party. There are tons of empty seats in rural areas, you would probably be able to run unopposed.
I did actually run and win, but the other officers were libs who refused to allow me to do anything. (I attempted to organize local meetings for activists.) I live in an extremely bourgeois area where the only people who actually care about things will lose their jobs if they speak up. All this being said I will keep trying. This thread has given me some ideas for organizing locals who seem to be pretty cool.
Here my one and only experience with PSL:
There was a large scale teacher strike in the state and some anarchists set up a table at the rally. The anarchists let PSL drop off some flyers at the table so the anarchists could hand then out for them. I got one which said there was a meeting that weekend.
I show up a little early ~5-10mins , and of course no one is there. I wait around for about 20 minutes and finally someone, a white lady, shows up. She swears she’s not the only member and the rest are in the way. We have some small talk about the strike and probably another 10 minutes later a van pulls up. What follows is the most “American leftist moment” of my life.
First guy to get out is a young white guy. Once his feet hit the ground, he immediately take a massive hit from his modkit and blows a quite impressive sized cloud. Then a old white guy get outs and starts unloading boxes of…guess what? Newspapers. The 3 sit down and we’re all given newspapers. It becomes clear to me now this is everyone that is going to show up.
Remember how there was a teacher strike in my state? Well we immediately launch into a discussion about Assad, Syria, chemical weapons and imperialism since that’s the front page news of their newspaper. This dominated the majority of the meeting but we all agreed that the US should fuck off. We have a quick 10 minute discussion about the strike before everyone has to leave.
Overall org rating: Better than trots because at least they don’t support imperialism in the newspaper
Yeeeeeeah everyone who’s told me anything spesific about PSL has had a bad story about them involving newspapers
I really don’t get how they became such a big meme on chapo after Warren got owned and it wasn’t really funny to subvert their “she’s electable if you vote for her” memes anymore
DSA and PSL are both hugely prone to “American leftist moments”. It really gets exhausting.
If you walk into one of their meetings and escape without a shoulder bag covered in buttons and pins, consider yourself lucky
Fuck The People’s Front of Judea, fucking revisionists! And those splitters in The People’s Popular Front of Judea didn’t improve anything.
All true revolutionaries are proud members of the Judean People’s Front.
