Ben
@augiebebel.bsky.social
MUG, NYC-DSA field organizer, field supremacist
Watching Barton Fink for the first time and I don't appreciate being doxxed like this
Ok so it's broken containment so not gonna bother to keep asking people to take it down, but for the record I would rather not be a football in a pissing match over whether MUG really helped on Zohran or not. Helped some as I have for half a decade the less we could talk about it the better.
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Man I can't wait to be a washed up old crank. The wheels on this puppy are very wobbly.
"Hello! Please correct your reporting to reflect the fact that Brandon Johnson is not a DSA member and was not endorsed by Chicago DSA" -Me for two years.
marxuckerberg@marxuckerberg.bsky.social · 9mo agoIncredible how many people just assume Brandon Johnson is a DSA member. If I were UWF and UWF was a serious organization I’d be a little offended
It is enervating that the GW chieftains have convinced themselves because Chi will talk to them that he'll be Bowman 2 (affair aside he was a different level). Otoh genuinely unhinged that the IC thinks this guy is going to be their guy on Campism. How do you not get that this is a weird liar guy?
Unironically MUG are the only Social Democrats in DSA
rose@breadnrosie.bsky.social · 9mo agoexpanding on this (and i realize that its opaque) but like even among the "rightist" caucuses, you have SMC who are basically a fusion of dem socialism with post-Maoism, while GW came from a merger of ecosocialists with some folks who are (for lack of a better term) post-Stalinists
expanding on this (and i realize that its opaque) but like even among the "rightist" caucuses, you have SMC who are basically a fusion of dem socialism with post-Maoism, while GW came from a merger of ecosocialists with some folks who are (for lack of a better term) post-Stalinists
rose@breadnrosie.bsky.social · 9mo agothis is kind of a nitpick, but as books are starting to come out about dsa, something i am noticing is that these professors/writers dont seem to understand the ideological thinking that underlies most dsa cadre's socialism and instead just assuming Bernie-esque DemSoc-ism which isnt really right
Idk y'all can believe whatever, but anyone actually involved knows Mamdani isn't trying to protect Jeffries. I wish Mamdani's strategy was more oppositional, but this is a debate about state vs federal/governance vs agitation/patience vs opportunism, not a mask off moment. Fuck him on Brad though.
Man it would be really nice, it I got to take the occasional break form my various neuroses
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A pointless resolution on the House floor today. Clearly they feel threatened by democratic socialists like myself who are unbought & willing to take on the billionaire class. To @DSA members across the country organizing every day to build more just communities: Thank you!
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It's good Zohran speaks at our forums when he disagrees; it's because he views himself as a member. He's not perfect, but I have absolute confidence he's doing this out of a belief that this is what's best for the project. Alexa thing is some goody two shoes shit though and he can fuck off.
Renee isn't wrong here but let's be clear this is a direct consequence of the political incentives produced by 1m1v. NYC has kept much bigger secrets than this in member meetings, because voting synchronously meant you had to convince active members. Going to the press didn't help you.
I'll leave the real response to our SPA scholars, but I do find it funny Blanc's MUG Derangement Syndrome pushes him to contradict himself in one sentence.
There's no such thing as tiered endorsements. All endorsements eventually fall to the lowest standard at which resources are available. A mass party like DSA, cannot possibly show the deftness in resource allocation required for both categories to be meaningful and different.
Socialist Majority believes in a majoritarian movement for democratic socialism: we work together toward a bigger and unified DSA. We support the updated NYC-DSA dues page and applaud our SC members for voting to ensure there is only one standard of membership: national dues.
Why is it every choice I make eventually leads to me deciding I need to read the Phenomenology of Spirit again?
Peter Sterne seems like a fine guy but City and State is the enemy. If you're gonna leak scoops send it to Hell Gate
Whether DSA or our electeds' defend abolitionism or not isn't a tactical question it's a strategic one. There is a profound cowardice involved in believing public sentiment can be read off polls. It saves you the dangerous tricky work of actually figuring out how to speak to anyone.
Saying "no you shouldn't lie about what I believe" = "an absolute opposition to compromise" is really telling on yourself lol
This gap is why we need a Min-Max program. The inability to walk and chew bubble gum on this stuff was one of the major failings of the 20th century left.
Peter Sterne@petersterne.com · 12mo agoI think it's more that they moved from a very detailed political program describing the world they'd eventually like to see to a broader statement of positions that mentions specific policies they're currently fighting for – in part to give DSA candidates concrete policies to campaign on.
TBC both Portland DSA and the campaigns that elected their city council people were lead in major part by members of Reform & Revolution and Bread & Roses, 2 Trotskyist caucuses. Even when we disagree, the right of DSA has a lot more in common with the left than they do with people like you.
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی@arashtehran.bsky.social · 12mo agoAtlantic is not a Leninist paper to have one singular position on everything. So I can only speak about my own perspective. The point here is lack of a unified national strategy based on the fact that the two wings in the org want fundamentally different things
Resolution just passed by the "Ultra-Left" wing of DSA www.marxistunity.com/mugdsa-conve...
Sam Brody@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 12mo agoLenin would probably not have thought the Democrats were a party at all