Starlet [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoChicago City Council passed an "Israel Solidarity Resolution". Despite DSA having 5 seats on the council, there was only one No votehexbear.netimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1198arrow-down1imageChicago City Council passed an "Israel Solidarity Resolution". Despite DSA having 5 seats on the council, there was only one No votehexbear.netStarlet [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·1 year ago BYLAWS Article I. Membership … Section 3. Members may be expelled… if they are under the discipline of any self-defined democratic-centralist organization. https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/constitution/
minus-squareLeninWeave [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·1 year agoSo you can be expelled for having principles, but not for having none?
minus-squareMaoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-21 year agoIn theory this is a way to prevent entryism (because Demcent is powerful). In practice it is used very inconsistently and mostly to exclude communists that a lib chapter doesn’t like.
minus-squareVILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 year agoDefanged Socialists of America
minus-squarejack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-21 year agotbf any decent demcent org would also not allow you to be a DSA member; PSL bars dual membership though I’m guessing this DSA rule doesn’t extend to members of the Democratic Party
https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/constitution/
So you can be expelled for having principles, but not for having none?
In theory this is a way to prevent entryism (because Demcent is powerful). In practice it is used very inconsistently and mostly to exclude communists that a lib chapter doesn’t like.
Defanged Socialists of America
tbf any decent demcent org would also not allow you to be a DSA member; PSL bars dual membership
though I’m guessing this DSA rule doesn’t extend to members of the Democratic Party