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Socialist Alternative seems like an overall self-defeating org (due to ideological purity) and powerless outside of the Seattle area and a few other metropolita

• eli_gottlieb 10y ago
  I'm a dual-listed DSA and Our Revolution member, and I can kinda agree with that. My personal politics are left enough for DSA, and it is a multi-tendency organization that's willing to include ideological social democrats. But if you don't have enough detailed political education to say, "I'm a social democrat or a socialist and I know why", but instead just think, "Inequality is too much, there are too many people homeless, hungry, or without health-care for such a rich country, and I wish the politicians would respond better", you should maybe stick with Our Revolution. I also definitely have a bone to pick with the people claiming we're gonna totally obtain third-party electoral successes Real Soon Now. Yes, the Democratic Party has been rubbish to us. It has been the "graveyard of social movements". But we've also run a hell of a lot of social movements (like Occupy Wall Street, for instance) that had a whole ton of radical spirit, chic, and ideology, but had zero power analysis and zero affirmative program. Our Revolution and Bernie's rejuvenation of social democracy through taking over the Democratic Party, while it's lost its back-bench, from the bottom up, does actually promise a strategy for obtaining real power that's suited to our historical moment. Just my thoughts. Don't mind me. I'm no longer sober.