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tbh I doubt they would even get back to you for that, PSL is notoriously bad at getting back to people in general while also only helping people to promote PSL and Peace & Freedom's candidates or show up to ANSWER stuff. maybe they will be changing these things with the election over, trying to use the momentum to build their party up.

I think non political people who have the standard 8th grade civ level of understanding installed and otherwise are just obviously people who care about life and other living things are really the best because it is easy to walk them to "the system doesn't work," they typically understand that already and just don't have the words to describe it. getting a group of people in similar shitty circumstances together and forming a plan on how to tackle those issues through building an organization together can be as easy as a bbq in the lawn at your local slumlord's apartment building. just need to analyze your local conditions and find the contradictions that have the most kinetic energy so to speak

it doesn't have to be a socialist party, it could be built around serving the people

Those are not the people who are going to be organized, they are fascists taking their masks off. The average Black and Indigenous person in America does not think this way. The average Muslim, Arab, or even Asians in general most likely do not think this way. Communists organize the most marginalized and oppressed, not fully invested liberals.

Honestly it would probably be more strategic to start something that directly helps the local people and opens them up to inoculation than try and start a PSL chapter

I'm thankful that the queer and BIPOC libs who voted for Harris will be forced to consider participating in organizing out of fear of Trump instead of rolling over and letting Harris usher in WW3 without pause. White libs will keep sliding right but I have a little hope that other people will see the writing on the wall like they did under the first Trump president before immediately wiping their minds for Biden

Yeah a good comrade joined their local chapter recently, found that out, and then dipped lol

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

No you see the just Ukrainian cause is so important that we have to go and fight because they are literally like the elves from lord of the rings and the ruZZians are evil orcs from mordor (in lord of the rings) and so if you go there to help fight you are basically a super hero

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.