This is a very good analysis, Andrew Stewart, but I do wonder why none of AOC's constituents in New York have not taken her to task for straying from the DSA platform. I can see a lot of tension between AOC and the DSA, I can see a possible parting of the ways sometime in the the future.
Yes I have read Hammer and Hoe a few years ago. I strongly recommend anyone who calls themself a Marxist read it as well. It is one of those books that might act as a guidebook for anyone who is serious about building a socialist movement in this country. But you can't do the type of organizing Robin Kelley writes about here, without a party, or organization, based on democratic centralism, which the DSA soundly rejects. > > Ultimately DSA has been a lot of earnest, young, and politically-naive > activists doing canvassing for Democratic primary candidates combined with > a rather gigantic media PR blitz by Jacobin magazine and its impersonators > without a lot of serious gains. This is pretty much one of the same points I made upthread, and why I think the DSA is largely irrelvant as a force for political and societal change. Which is why the powers that be allows them to exist. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8533): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8533 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82621517/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
