Re: [Marxism] On the now-dissolved [DSA] Spring Caucus: Latinos, the DSA and intersectionality

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On 3/19/19 5:24 PM, MM via Marxism wrote:



On Mar 17, 2019, at 8:09 PM, Joaquin Bustelo via Marxism 
 wrote:

On the now-dissolved Spring Caucus: Latinos, the DSA and intersectionality: 
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-now-dissolved-spring-caucus-latinos.html 
.


The Spring Caucus documents are fatally flawed, and these critical reflections 
from Joaquin correctly raise issues that would have to be addressed. At the 
same time, I think an issue that haunted the struggle against Apartheid in 
South Africa, and that still haunts the current post-Apartheid political order, 
will continue also to haunt the US left: whether the goal is a multi-racial 
society, or a non-racial one. Neville Alexander, who was a prisoner on Robben 
Island with Nelson Mandela, was the main intellectual proponent of the latter 
in South Africa; many of his works are available through the MIA website, 
including his seminal “One Azania, One Nation,” written under a pseudonym while 
in exile:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/alexander/index.htm



I posted this to FB earlier today:

What a joke. These people issue an open letter indicating that their 
Spring Caucus is splitting but do not spell out the differences. They 
also adopt a superior attitude toward the "Leninist" left that kept 
splitting into smaller and smaller groups over differences of the sort 
that will never fracture the DSA. Well, goody gumdrops. What the 
Trotskyist and Maoist left did, for all their deficits, is patiently 
explain to the broader left what their differences were and not paper 
them over as these neo-Kautskyists, or whatever the fuck they are, have 
done.

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Re: [Marxism] On the now-dissolved [DSA] Spring Caucus: Latinos, the DSA and intersectionality

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> On Mar 17, 2019, at 8:09 PM, Joaquin Bustelo via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> On the now-dissolved Spring Caucus: Latinos, the DSA and intersectionality: 
> http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-now-dissolved-spring-caucus-latinos.html
>  
> .

The Spring Caucus documents are fatally flawed, and these critical reflections 
from Joaquin correctly raise issues that would have to be addressed. At the 
same time, I think an issue that haunted the struggle against Apartheid in 
South Africa, and that still haunts the current post-Apartheid political order, 
will continue also to haunt the US left: whether the goal is a multi-racial 
society, or a non-racial one. Neville Alexander, who was a prisoner on Robben 
Island with Nelson Mandela, was the main intellectual proponent of the latter 
in South Africa; many of his works are available through the MIA website, 
including his seminal “One Azania, One Nation,” written under a pseudonym while 
in exile:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/alexander/index.htm 

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[Marxism] On the now-dissolved [DSA] Spring Caucus: Latinos, the DSA and intersectionality

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The (IMHO) workerist, economist and class-reductionist Spring Caucus of 
the DSA (the current formerly known as Momentum which maintains the 
socialistcall.com website has dissolved due to "significant and 
unresolvable disagreements over how to relate to other DSA tendencies, 
how best to relate to anti-oppression mobilizations and demands, and the 
nature and role of our caucus in DSA."


Full is here: 
https://socialistcall.com/2019/03/17/setbacks-and-new-beginnings/


I wrote a rather extensive critique of their politics on the national 
question in the United States as it related to Latinos and undocumented 
immigrants.


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This post was written looking forward to the DSA convention. Although 
finished, I had not made it public, unsure as to whether it would 
further complicate an unfortunate situation where some caucuses had been 
formed prematurely, leading others to also form caucuses in response. 
Now with the just-announced dissolution of the Spring Caucus, the 
situation has changed.


I joined one of the counter-caucuses to Spring, the Socialist Majority 
caucus. And a related reason for not posting this article is that 
Socialist Majority had decided that, as a group, it would limit itself  
to presenting our own vision for the DSA as a multi-tendency 
organization, and not a critique of other viewpoints.


"The Call" announces the dissolution of the Spring Caucus
So it had not discussed a lot of the ideas presented in this article, 
and, frankly, I would have been against the caucus or the DSA adopting 
them as such; at this stage of its development, the DSA should remain 
open and inclusive of many currents, including those of comrades who 
disagree with me, such as the authors of the two documents I criticize 
below.


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the full post is here:

On the now-dissolved Spring Caucus: Latinos, the DSA and 
intersectionality: 
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-now-dissolved-spring-caucus-latinos.html.


Joaquín


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