I think this is kind of right, but there is no promise Trump and his team will be incompetent and less harmful. I think it’s just true that if either were to be, it would be him, and definitely not her. Harris will definitely follow the script, Trump might improv sometimes in a way that is actually less bad than the script. He might follow it too though, he did cut his teeth on the stage after all (at WWE)
If you mean a national org I guess PSL would be it. FRSO is mostly irrelevant and varies a lot chapter to chapter, some of which are even endorsing local lib politicians which at least PSL never does. WWP is also irrelevant and mostly boomers, albeit nice ones. DSA is a colonial project masquerading as leftist to trick newly radicalized people.
As far as upholding treaties goes, this is one of the most common and largest rallying cries of Indigenous people in the US today, so that position is probably taken up by orgs like FRSO because they do not have Indigenous people internally to rely on for this and it is what a lot of Indigenous people openly advocate for. It isn’t revolutionary compared to the abolition of the US government entirely and return of all land to the formerly colonized subjects but it is revolutionary if you think about how the new democracy movement in china was revolutionary for the time.
yeah maybe so, I feel like people were practicing animal husbandry under primitive communism though right? I would assume the first instance of having a class divide socially would have required a religious concept to justify it
yeah it is quite literally the oldest trick in the book and the origination of class society
Yeah DSA is the left wing of fascism imo, been in spaces with them for years and it is very disturbing. I do believe a lot of good people get wrapped up in there thinking they can make it better but god is that an awful org to be a part of. I think PSL isn’t beyond changing it just needs really dedicated and principled comrades. I guess what you’ll be missing from joining PSL would be like, a more intentional education track but if you are good with studying already, an organization doing actual work with colonized groups and marginalized people in general would be a much better learning experience.
Honestly an important example for communism being anti-religious. This idea gets thrown around a lot as if it means communists will oppress you for being a Christian or something, but they don’t mention that there were fucking geomancers and mud idolatry cults taking people’s income to throw in the river to get a blessing and not die from drinking dirty water. This is still a huge issue all around the world, like in India with the Brahmin mafia needing to get cut in on everything that happens in society to just burn some incense and say some words or else everyone will be punished by this god or that god, or the so-called Hyenas in Malawi who are hired to sleep with kids after their first menstruation in order to “cleanse” them, or the Catholic church for, well everything they’ve done. It makes sense that communists would fight these things, and they are religious things, but it doesn’t have to mean that a communist must be anti-religious to fight specific examples of abuse from metaphysical thinking that they see around them.
From what I was explained by former cadre, there is an established leadership and an appointed majority who control things which average cadre are not really involved with and do not vote for, and who’s strategies have not really changed for a very long time. When these average cadre see similar issues, they end up asking similar questions, which becomes pushing for similar answers and being rebuffed in similar ways. Whether it is asking about how to change organizational structure to properly hold abusers accountable because of actual cases of abuses, asking about why pursuing an electoral strategy has been absorbing so many resources of the org and there are virtually no mass programs nor interaction with “the masses” outside of going to protests (arguably not the masses), or even pushing to do specific types of organizational work that cadre see as valuable and missing and are willing to put work into , these things aren’t up for discussion openly among the cadre even behind closed doors.
I was happy to see PSL did update their electoral strategy with new candidates who seem great and their media arm has been doing well, hopefully they keep improving.
I enjoy most of their content and most of them seem like fun and cool people as far as people go, Grant being one of my least favorite for several reasons but still funny sometimes. I think it is less a “leftist for clout” situation at the outset and more like what most radlibs (dem socs, anarchists especially) do which is sincerely want a better world but have a very surface level of theoretical development and will not prioritize that over developing a career and becoming a stable beneficiary of imperialism treat enjoyer. I have high hopes for Beardsley to be the vanguard of dropout employees but I think it is more likely that dropout’s continued success will lead them all in the direction of $$
and tbh I am harsh and think calling to vote for kamala is cringe but its a pretty standard and typical position in this country and it isn’t surprising that publicly these up and coming celebrities would want to seem like “normal progressives” even if they have deeper more revolutionary desire, hopefully that is the case but I have a lot of doubt about that
I personally have organized with multiple people from different chapters of PSL who were abused for being trans or brought complaints about being preyed on by people in their chapter and in each instance they were essentially pushed out of the org and the person they were abused by remained. Over two dozen members of the chapter I used to be affiliated with locally left over an issue like this happening to someone and then finding out that they are not a dem cent org and there is no internal mechanisms for solving these issues.
If PSL is all that you have available, I’d still say go for it, and just be aware of these problems and try to be a good communist in combating liberalism and defending comrades from harm.
I had high hopes for him and do love his work but yeah he definitely could do better to embody the characters he is very good at writing and portraying. Although he is now a parent and is becoming progressively more wealthy through a career in Hollywood so it is much more likely that his trajectory will trend the other way
Yeah Beardsley getting arrested and also not promoting voting stuff is why I excluded them but giving money to charity and being pro-labor can easily be lib positions in the current climate. Giving money to Palestinian charities and then saying vote for Kamala is not even radlib, its just lib
Outside of Ally Beardsley who I have not seen promote voting for Kamala or taking part in fundraisers and phone banking for Kamala, the rest of them are at most on the LA DSA mailing list and otherwise just make more and more money in Hollywood and get hired into more and more Hollywood jobs. Even Brennan was just promoting voting on his stories yesterday, these are the “free Gaza, vote Kamala” types of libs who want the aesthetics of leftism as a virtue signal and marketing tactic. I follow a lot of them and have been seeing all the cringe most of them have been posting
Nah the most political any of them are is LA DSA mailing lists (not actively organizing) except Ally Beardsley maybe. Even Brennan just posted all these stories yesterday about how to vote and why it is important etc etc. They are making a lot of money in Hollywood now, they want to use the aesthetics of leftism to virtue signal but they are the type of libs who say free gaza and they vote for the person doing the genocide because cheeto man bad
They make fun content at Dropout but lord are they the ultimate radlibs
Just like when the KKK aligned with Marcus Garvey, the crackers like the idea that all their enemies will consolidate in a place that is away from where they are. Plus a lot of the Christians believe the Jews need to go back to Israel to usher in the return of Christ
They will continue running their already existing fiefdoms and abusing their already subjugated sub-classes and pushing for more laws at every level to increase their ability to do so without consequences.
When do local politicians decide on ending wars, nationalizing resources and industry, providing free housing and healthcare and education? How long do we have to get those tens of thousands of individual local politicians elected into power before the planet warms to a point of no return which ushers in a mass extinction event?
America has always been a dictatorship of the capitalist class over everyone else. You do not have two real options to choose from, you have two pre-selected symbolic representations of your subjugation by and for capital.
The Boy Boy vid posted above is great, and for a more in depth documentary, Ukraine on Fire directed by Igor Lopatonok is excellent
Yeah a good comrade joined their local chapter recently, found that out, and then dipped lol