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Comrades responded to my description of EBDSA with everything from starting a new branch to starting a political education class. It's not just that simple. The net effect of what the East Bay DSA (EBDSA) leadership has done is succeed in creating an atmosphere where it's commonly accepted that campaigning for the Democrats and/or for their programs is the only thing that DSA can do. There's another point: I really don't think EBDSA is just an extreme exception, that what's happening in the rest of DSA runs completely counter to EBDSA. This whole business of "there is no leadership", for example: There is **always** a leadership. The only question is whether it operates from behind the scenes, all the while declaiming that it doesn't exist, or whether it's out in the open. And the fact is that the entire DSA is moving in more or less the same direction as EBDSA. Why is it, after all, that there is no serious discussion of what concrete steps DSA can take to start down the road towards a working class party? JOhn Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
