Malkhodr

I despise liberals for their racism more then anything. I know where I stand with a Trump Supporter or your average European Nazi. They hate Muslims and make it known. They don’t pester about us hating them back, they get that it’s a mutual understanding.

But liberals… they will aay the most fascist shit to you either through dogwhistles or with the mask off, yet get infuriatingly whiney about being confronted. They will support the same shit as the far right or at least refuse to address a core concern which essentially does the same thing, but if I call them bigots they become insufferable.

The smug self importance is significantly more insulting then the far right’s staunch anti-intellucrualism. The person who believes reading a book will turn him gay isn’t exactly boasting about his intellectual superiority. The college educated man-child whose never critically engaged with a piece of political theory beyond an ideologues biography, somehow believes himself to be a the resurrection of Socrates, and that delusion is unacceptably grating.

But I thought…

I had an 8th grade history teacher who called me captain cr*pple the first day of class when I walked in on crutches…

Ironically I actually quite enjoyed his class and still have a deep live for learning history. If I wasn’t concerned with financial viability and helping my parents after I finish my studies I’d probably be a history major.

The trajectory of life really is quite a funny thing when you look back on it.

Just went on a mini study tour and had no idea that the first nuclear plant was built in the USSR. Of course my nuclear engineering education failed to mention that, only discussing the atom bomb and the EBR-1.

The Soveits get mocked at any mention and it grates me endlessly because I’ve not had the time to dive into how my field was used in the USSR. If anyone had resources for me to start I’d appreciate it. Research articles are welcome, I’d like to see if there’s any unique designs I’ve yet to see.

DSA is almost entirely based on your local chapter and trying to ascribe a somewhat cohesive understanding of them from a national level is, in my opinion, not going to yeild accurate or useful results.

There are some chapters where the leadership of DSA is extremely socdem and liberal while the membership are commited Marxists, or at least anti-imperialist and nominally pro-AES. There are other chapters where it’s the reverse, and the leadership is a bunch of commited anti-imperialists whom are trying their damnest to sheperad baby leftists socdems into actual revolutionary politics but are constrained by the majority white leftist community. There’s also chapters where the leadership and membership are quite consistent in their views, be it socdem liberalism or commited Marxists who just needed an organization structure to begin doing actions and found it through the DSA.

This doesn’t take into account the conflicts between DSA and YDSA which is its own category of discussion.

I will say that according to a Comrade of mine who I know is within my local DSA, there’s currently a power struggle within the organization itself happening mainly through the local branches. The struggle is between the anti-imperialist faction who often find themselves amiable towards MLs and other Marxists due to the shared internationalist line, and the socdem liberal faction who focuses more of their attention on electoralism.

Right now, the latter faction seems to have institutional power of a certain degree, boasting socdem representatives within the US government, but they are increasingly at odds with the organization itself which seems to be becomimg more and more influenced by the former faction. I personally think that the socdems will eventually be overwhelmed and break into various splits while the DSA eventually comes under the control of the anti-imperialist faction.

This is also something I would suggest you don’t just take my word for it, as I mentioned prior, local chapters are the most important factor for determining how the DSA operates at a level that matters.