Honestly its rude to be invited by a country to meet their president who decided to respond to your criticisms of their administration only to not show up and go meet the opposition.
Being invided and then no showing shows complete disregard to basic diplomatic Etiquette since it was a mission to show solidarity against the embargo
Bonus socdems being cringe part 4.5: about another member that didnt show up to the presidential meeting
Deeply unserious people
Her criticisms come from an incredibly idealist perspective and are divorced from any understanding of power or how a communist party functions. Even lauding Fidel, but ignoring him: “within the revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing”. introducing “alternative leftist voices” for its own sake accomplishes nothing but sating the unending liberal tendency to act indecisively and fight amongst each other, even when facing an existential threat. Constantly railing against the “bureaucracy” and constantly trying to create a distinction between the communist party from the masses, from the perspective of an outsider… from the imperial core… from the US no less, the primary enemy of the Cuban revolution… It is incredibly telling that that is what she spends her time on. If she is such an incredible organizer and ardent communist then she should focus on revolution within the US
Her criticisms come from an incredibly idealist perspective and are divorced from any understanding of power or how a communist party functions
I’ll emphasize again, and not a attack on the person who wrote it but a reminder of reality, DSA is not a communist party.
It is not a leninist party of the new type, it is a social democratic party in function regardless of whatever form they or anyone else claim to be.
I agree completely. The DSA has been an anti-communist project from its conception. This person claims to be giving a “marxist critique” though, and that is what I was addressing. The unfortunate reality is that many people with revolutionary aspirations end up being siphoned into DSA and believe that they are communists. But in reality, most people who join the DSA are exposed to these garbage takes, the incessant factionalism, and ineffectual action, and think that that is what socialist organizing is. They become disaffected and it drives people away from communist parties and organizing in general when the goal should be to bring people in and change their understanding of democracy into a participatory, socialist one. Most DSA members are just members on paper because of this.
But there is a second aspect of the crisis which we did not focus on during this delegation: a crisis of political legitimacy. Cuba’s government is a regime where decision-making power rests in the hands of the Central Committee of the PCC (the only legal political party) alongside its bureaucracy while the elected legislature is a disempowered rubber-stamp committee. Legally recognized mass organizations we met with on this delegation, like the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, Federation of Cuban Women, and the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba, are loyal to the bureaucracy, while independent political organizing is repressed.
This is from that “comrade” who skipped the meeting with the president. Tells you all you need to know about them. The DSA didn’t focus on this “second aspect” but she really wanted to hijack the trip and make it about this instead of the blockade, so she pulled some immature stunt to get attention for her idealist bullshit
I’ll emphasize again, and not a attack on the person who wrote it but a reminder of reality, DSA is not a communist party.
Not a communist party, yet
Hopefully the more effectively organized left wing can succeed in eventually taking it over, this last wave of elections seems promising to that effect.
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Blah blah blah, she’s a representative of an organization and she acted undiplomatically, unprofessionally and in a disrespectful way that is consistent with chauvinist actions. You haven’t presented a single argument why this is acceptable behavior just went off on insults and “she’s a million times more of a comrade than you” bludgeoning. This was a disgrace to internationalism and socialist solidarity.
You don’t get to make a huge comment with insults and get the last word, then disengage. This is abuse of the feature
Organizing is about building capacity to engage in action. Recruiting, educating, and getting other people involved and connected.
If you’re really good at doing that for the purposes of chauvinism, ignorance, and toeing the line of the NED constellation of bullshit, you are not doing a good thing and are doing something that is actually very easy in the context of an the American supremacist liberal environment in which everyone has been raised.
