The thing I don’t understand about Hasan’s electoral politics is why he only talks to DSA people instead of third party local politicians. Even if he personally thinks DSA has a higher chance of success of instilling class consciousness among the masses, I had hoped he would still also report on other orgs who try that such as PSL. Maybe PSL is super tiny compared to DSA? IDK I’m not from the US so I probably shouldn’t even involve myself in this discussion
PSL is super tiny compared to the DSA, yes. Now, it’s not easy to tell the exact size difference since think since PSL doesnt really accept you if you’re not willing to devote a huge portion of your life to it while all it takes to be in dsa is either pay like 10 bucks a month or write a fee waiver application*, so you cant even really go based off of DSA having 100k paper members, but based off of my experience DSA still has way more organizers than PSL.
and it’s not “DSA having a higher chance of success of instilling class consciousness”, it’s that DSA runs candidates pretty much exclusively through the democratic party ticket and thus can actually win elections and thus can actually win credibility among workers by excercisng power, and that spending time on local third party politicians is both 1) a waste of time and 2) actively harming his own credibility, because the average person will think you’re kind of a crank for even talking to a 3rd party person let alone acting like they can win
*this fee waiver is something you can 1000% bs your way through, my local dsa chapter when i was organizing flat out told us to lie and get the waiver even if we could affort because they really didnt like national and didnt want us giving them money directly lmao
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The thing I don’t understand about Hasan’s electoral politics is why he only talks to DSA people instead of third party local politicians. Even if he personally thinks DSA has a higher chance of success of instilling class consciousness among the masses, I had hoped he would still also report on other orgs who try that such as PSL. Maybe PSL is super tiny compared to DSA? IDK I’m not from the US so I probably shouldn’t even involve myself in this discussion
PSL is super tiny compared to the DSA, yes. Now, it’s not easy to tell the exact size difference since think since PSL doesnt really accept you if you’re not willing to devote a huge portion of your life to it while all it takes to be in dsa is either pay like 10 bucks a month or write a fee waiver application*, so you cant even really go based off of DSA having 100k paper members, but based off of my experience DSA still has way more organizers than PSL.
and it’s not “DSA having a higher chance of success of instilling class consciousness”, it’s that DSA runs candidates pretty much exclusively through the democratic party ticket and thus can actually win elections and thus can actually win credibility among workers by excercisng power, and that spending time on local third party politicians is both 1) a waste of time and 2) actively harming his own credibility, because the average person will think you’re kind of a crank for even talking to a 3rd party person let alone acting like they can win
*this fee waiver is something you can 1000% bs your way through, my local dsa chapter when i was organizing flat out told us to lie and get the waiver even if we could affort because they really didnt like national and didnt want us giving them money directly lmao