Phi230 posted:

https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/02/socialist-student-club-promote-fight-club-campus-advocate-violence-exclude-republicans/



http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8741


I can't find the libertarian one. I'm phone posting so no quotes

Ruzihm posted:

"Knights for socialism" is a weird name to me. I associate modern political use of "knights" with the KKK. Am I alone in this? Is your school mascot a knight or something?

Doorknob Slobber posted:

I think that right now, in most places the best place to put your effort is working in the democratic party. In some areas you can be lucky enough to vote for actual socialists and even win or get close to winning. I think going forward a great deal can be taken from Socialist Alternative's success. The candidates they pick to run are also very active activists that work on their other social campaigns like 15 Now and rent control and resisting DAPL. I think that is something to keep in mind at the local level going forward, even when working within the democratic party.

But working within the democratic party is good because of the amount of effort Bernie's campaign put into the primary in organizing people to get involved in the party and also just building his name brand. If I was a democrat running for office I would love the Berniecrat label, especially if Bernie himself runs in 2020, I would love if he announced really early that he was planning on running. Partially because loving Donald Trump is already running.

Utilizing Bernie's structure and support base by working within the democratic party instead of focusing on a third party is probably (unfortunately) the most pragmatic thing to do right now. And at the local level put a lot of focus on moving policy through initiatives and electing the vocal people who work on those initiatives to office.

Grognan posted:

Starting to consider that organizing paramilitary groups alongside all available action might not be a bad idea.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

this sounds... anticapitalist

quote:

The development of coalition and interest-group politics greatly alarmed both royal officials and more conservative Patriots.[6] For example, William Henry Drayton, the prominent South Carolina planter who had studied at Oxford University, complained about the participation of cobblers and butchers, stating that "Nature never intended that such men should be profound politicians, or able statesmen.[6] In 1775, the royal governor of Georgia "noted in astonishment that the committee in control of Savannah consisted of 'a Parcel of the Lowest People, chiefly carpenters, shoemakers, Blacksmiths etc with a Jew at their head."[6][7]

Doorknob Slobber posted:

Thanks. I stole this and posted it all over the various progressive/socialist facebook groups I'm in because using technology to be organized is a good thing that political people don't do well.

Internet Explorer posted:

This is really awesome. We recently started discussing software and infrastructure at our DSA meeting. Apparently it is a requirement from DSA national that a chapter has the ability to rapidly reach out to members (via text, call, etc) for flash gatherings like airport protests. We formed a small committee to start setting that up, but our chapter is just getting started and there is such an obvious need for infrastructure in general.

Action Network seems to imply that it is free for "small groups," but I couldn't find the definition of that or pricing otherwise. To me it definitely seems like the way to go. It integrates with a bunch of stuff, including CallHub.

Also it looks like SalesForce has a 10 user license available for non-profits. I think DSA chapters are 501(c)(3), which sounds like it qualifies.

I will definitely post some guides once we start making more progress. I think having the right infrastructure in place is probably one of the most important things we can do. I'm actually surprised that DSA national does not have something in place for its chapters.

Ruzihm posted:

is this what a friendly leftcom looks like?????

unbutthurtable posted:

This was dope, and I really do hope we can put together a publishable packet with links and checklists and poo poo to help chapters get organized and secure, quickly.


PM me. I have a cool MLK one we made for our first branch meeting, but I don't want to share out my google drive info to the ether.


We're already looking into becoming a partner org to a credit union over here that takes our NYC ID cards as identification (which are open to undocumented persons) so that DSA members can join.

And my dream is that the NYC chapter (and obviously national could do this broadly) has the funds and organization in a year or two to start a Cooperative Development working group to provide guidance and seed money to potential co-ops. Even aside from helping people own their own employment, just finding union or co-op vendors can be tough, just for things that DSA needs, so I think that a co-op print shop in the city somewhere could be a win-win.

TwoQuestions posted:

Where do you keep finding this good poo poo?

Azuth0667 posted:

What do you do if none of the workers who would join have any money to buy means?

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

I am glad you have thought this over and have an answer.

Any concern about fostering diversity and inclusion of PoC given that the story of the American revolution that we're taught is very white?

HiHo ChiRho posted:

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

the international alliance between the DSA and canadian hoxhaists is unstoppable

logikv9 posted:

THIS IS WHY BERNIE LOST because y'all can't follow instructions!!!!!!! TRUMP

unbutthurtable posted:

but did you like it

Mythical Moderate posted:

I'll be attending my first DSA meeting tomorrow. Looking at the FB event details is making me leery this will be more liberal than socialist.

Fullhouse posted:

I think it's more "nobody will ever take us seriously if 90% of our intersectional socialist movement is white male yuppies", which I think is a legitimate concern

Rated PG-34 posted:

Having Harvey Weinstein as supreme leader of the DSA may be bad, but at least we don’t gulag dissidents like they do in NK

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

still abolish the concept of "leadership" imho.

let everyone feel as empowered and capable to facilitate (a meeting, an action, a canvassing event, a conference) as the mediocre white cis man does

Annual Prophet posted:

jarofpiss posted:

now that im getting pretty strong im thinking about expanding that praxis to arm wrestling strangers and if they lose they have to join the dsa

Ace of Baes posted:

im not a socdem im an ancom who literally co-founded a dsa chapter, looking down on socdems is super cringy and reminds of depressing trots patting each other on the back over how much theory theyve read

Goon Danton posted:

I know the "I will never read a book" caucus is dominant here, but I read a book (Discipline and Punish) and it was dope. Anyone have any good reading suggestions? I got Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality and the Communist Manifesto at a used book store for so those will probably be next, but I'm always looking to add more to my list.

Serf posted:

just my two cents, end all foreign wars and withdraw all military personnel and assets from any place not inside united state borders. gently caress empire

megalodong posted:

This is surely satire... "Lone wolf", doesn't actually do anything besides talk online, political theory identical to the one a high school libertarian would have thought up, /r/justneckbeardthings style photos

apokaladle posted:

to both

but a lot of people involved with ebdsa are individually still cool and if we ever run into each other I'll try and introduce you

Dreddout posted:

Around 5000 terrestrial due paying members but that number sky rockets to 9 trillion when you consider the galactic commune we are affiliated with

Dreddout posted:

You rang?

Serf posted:

i figure if we can all agree that capitalism is the problem, we can work together on that first and then hash out who has the best idea afterwards