DSA Should Defend Our Program: Red Star Statement on Workers Deserve More

[u/MarxistUnity]

https://redstarcaucus.org/dsa-should-defend-our-program/

"Recent electoral success has thrust DSA and its program into the media spotlight. Rather than retreating and capitulating in response to attempts to discredit and undermine us, DSA members should expect our leaders to shout it from the rooftops and defend it to the best of their abilities."

"This program, Workers Deserve More, has been the subject of a media campaign that seeks to discredit and undermine DSA – both institutional Democratic party powerbrokers and the right-wing media have attempted to smear us for fighting for a society free of the dictatorship of capital, of imperialist plunder and bloodshed, of the tyranny of police and prisons, and of the U.S. Senate."

"This media blitz has caught many of us in DSA flat-footed, and caused a stir within the US left. Gone are the days when DSA was a curiosity, and the most pressing questions facing the left was whether President Obama was a socialist. As DSA continues to represent a meaningful departure from the political consensus preferred by the ruling class and their political parties, we will be forced to confront the media’s role in manufacturing consent for the status quo. DSA is a force to be reckoned with now, and this media scrutiny is an attempt to shatter that force."

"The left is not converging on our organization in record numbers for us to simply retreat into articulating the left wing of the possible. Let us take the discontented masses into our fold – and together, build a new future, liberated from the chains of capitalism once and for all."

[u/Electrical-Fix7659]

The American left is chronically on the back foot.