Re: [Marxism] Flirting With Liberals

[Mark Lause via Marxism]

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 As an fyi, the DSA Refoundation dissolved last November.
https://dsarefoundation.org/2018/11/11/dissolution/

Also, in a general sense, members declaring the DSA or any other
organization as being in the wrong class is not only an abstraction but
raises the question of why the hell anyone in the working class is in it.

Too, isnt a left-wing caucus just going through the motions unless we reach
out to the left-wingers in the DSA?  And doing so with a plan of action for
what we want the DSA to do in the here and now to move forward?  And what
we can do within the DSA to move the DSA that direction?
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[Marxism] Flirting With Liberals

[Richard Modiano via Marxism]

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"Social democrats throughout history have, as a result of similar class
politics, been quick to collaborate with the bourgeoisie on programs
destructive to the lowest productive class, the proletariat. Harold Wilson
deployed troops to Northern Ireland; Mitterrand took up an 'austerity
turn;' SYRIZA immediately capitulated to the central bankers; Ebert and the
SPD helped the Freikorps kill Luxemburg and Liebknecht. The examples could,
tragically, go for days.

Communists like those in DSA Refoundation or the DSA Communist Caucus - who
may be consolidating at some point - should not ignore this history. DSA
entry advocates should instead explain whether they believe DSA has a
proletarian class character, and if so where the break with historical
social democracy has occurred, particularly in light of their commitment to
the Democratic Party. If they accept that it is not proletarian, they
should answer how they expect to overturn its class basis without
destroying the organization altogether."

www.hamptoninstitution.org/critical-examination-of-dsa.html?
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