Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

We need a cadre of lower middle class and struggling working people to visit DSA meetings and protest, educate, and reform it from the outside. We'd be the TSA, the Transformational Socialists of America.https://twitter.com/lil_yenta/status/1213770947863482368 …

Here's the thing. In my DSA chapter I saw it happen in real time. I'm sure it generalizes. At the start of the DSA bump there was actual working-class interest and working-class people showing up. It was the categorically "leftist" activist/socialist/grad students

taking the thing over *and particularly making their own ideological identitarian and patronage politics the core ideology of the org. The progressive stacking (intersectionality in practice) of the attention, focus, language and leadership sends a loud message to the working ppl

I can't even do the depth of the problem justice. For ex, the "doing the work" emphasis of the productive PMCs just won't work for a working class org. You just won't be able to do all the pet projects and a million tiny personalized projects. Chapters and an org led by working