Anthony - I suggested a defense committee (a name for a united front) and would use Minnesota as mobilizing and successful urging people - to go beyond just some nice witnessing day - but to enact as in minnesota organizing and enduring harsh weather and beyond one day. While getting a large mass of people in the streets, as Karl Marx and many others understood - activism can create raising awareness.
On of the things I observe from today and throughout history - people growing up "learn" to accept, adapt and conform to survive without harm. When you can inspire people to care about others, it creates a raised awareness that more can AND MUST be challenged. That "Business As Usual" is not acceptable for the masses of people whom do not benefit but just exist as before exploited and harmed. DSA as so many others do not want to recognize what actual conditions many are in - and the need to not "fit in for a small reform: as in Los Angeles DSA discussing having more public bathrooms in Los Angeles Transit System and fixing car break lights - and to elect a few candidates but just mainly talk and go party and settle for that "As they having more knowledge" -but not seriously working for a better expanded movement and structure to respond too as a war and a fascist seeking authoritarian rule. More into the several small caucuses to not unite for major advances and accept so little instead. The 1960's were large number of mainly youth whom challenged and opposed racism, war, etc. and created an awareness to want nd work for more. The current new generation as those whom joined DSA are more learning to accept, adapt and conform into the same "business as usual". where is V. I. Lein and those otherswhom demanded an end to business as usual and seek "lower demands and expectations - and accept the rulers remaining in power? So whatever the organizational form is: election defense committee, or a recognized other name that had for short time with discussions between the CPUSA, DSA and Freedom Road - to form and expand to welcome ALL left currents whom want to work together (and not just criticize as some small sectarian mindset sects as the Gerry Healey Sect today (Socialist Equity Party), similar to the Sparts and groups whom want to debate but not create real movement, since they view ONLY Themselves to have that role. We need to grow up in my view, hold what ideological left views, but willing to work together against the Real Threat and this is not academic b.s. blsbbering but creating and building and offering leadership to welcome, involve and move along from isolated to real meaningful force much of the working class we must involve. DSA does not seek confrontation or real struggle just talk and state their revolutionaries - but not provide anything to build as neighborhood based associations or workplace formations - that are not in control but independent of the rulers. The rulers fear independent movements and try to seek to divert and control in various predictable ways - as recognizing leaders and offer staff posts and being elected officials to then spend effort to "compromise principles" and then over time with more compromise to be just as the politicians they first opposed - to be servants to the wealthy rulers.We see that as how the youth environmental activists:The Sunrise Movement was turned to go from sitdown protests, activists - to becoming just door knocking for democratic politician aspirants. Can we recognize that when we are born we learn to not touch hot flames warned by our parents and then when burned accept watever our parents transmit as including what thy were told - as history and to avoid harm - by being good worker bees and assume protected by the rulers and their government servants - as their part of the organized society established - accepting rulers, exploitation and not actual real democracy and caring about workers but just working for the rulers. On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 5:21 PM Anthony Teso via groups.io <anthony.p.teso= [email protected]> wrote: > *Re: DSA should campaign against Trump's plans to steal the election* > > John is right that the silence is a problem. He is wrong about almost > everything he proposes to do about it, and the thread has split along lines > that make both errors harder to see. > > Start with what the threat actually looks like. John O'Brien pictures > January 3: Congress dispersed, martial law, Hegseth obeying. That scenario > is possible, and I would not rule it out. But it is the least likely route > because it is the most expensive one. The more probable path runs through > the ordinary machinery. DOJ inquiries into county election offices. > Certification fights in a handful of states. Federal "monitors." > Prosecutions timed to intimidate the officials who count. Nothing needs to > be abolished for the result to be decided in advance. This is what I have > been calling patrimonial Bonapartism: the state apparatus treated as the > personal household of the executive, with loyalty substituted for procedure > by office. Calling it Nazism, or fascism in the 1933 sense, points people > toward barricades when the fight is in county canvassing boards and state > legislatures. > > Marv's point about conditions deserves a straight answer. A general strike > call from DSA today would be a press release. The union density, the > shop-floor organization, and the Marxist currents inside the locals that > could carry it—none of it exists at the scale the slogan assumes. John's > "main strategy" skips over the question of who would actually walk out. > That is substitution, the group announcing what the class should do and > then blaming the class, or the unions, or No Kings, when it doesn't. > > But Charles has the better of the No Kings argument. The coalition's own > literature commits it to lawful, disciplined, de-escalated action. That is > a program, and it is a program of trusting the courts and the certification > process to hold. If they don't hold, the coalition has no second move. Marv > says mass marches transform consciousness. Sometimes. They can also teach a > million people that showing up once and going home is what resistance is. > > On the Palestine movement: John, lumping it in with Tucker Carlson is > indefensible, and it discredits the rest of your argument with exactly the > people you need. Some antisemites will blame Israel for whatever happens. > The answer is to fight them inside the movement, which means being in it. > > What would I actually propose? Concretely and modestly: DSA chapters and > allied union locals building election-defense committees now, at the county > level, trained to watch certification and to turn people out fast when an > office is threatened. That is work. No kings will not do it because it cuts > against their legalism, and it is work that puts socialists next to union > activists in a fight with a clear object. If it grows, the strike question > can be posed seriously. If it doesn't, we will have learned something about > where we actually stand. > > > > Tony > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#43528): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43528 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/121405050/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
