to some extent, Zohran is selling himself short. he’s a generational talent, brilliant rhetorician, and principled socialist, but he’s right: it’s far easier to corrupt an individual than a mass movement organization

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Zohran’s keynote speech at the 2023 DSA National Convention argued that DSA is the only organization on the modern left capable of developing the movement infrastructure that can resist the pressures inherent to elected office youtu.be/yA13mlaiw1w?...

to be clear, i’m not saying that there aren’t folks who claim to be to dsa’s left and who view us as suckdem reformist$ or whatever, but that these people are not “more advanced,” they’re usually significantly less developed organizers and thinkers

everything you said equally applies to chapters which we do regulate this way. “what if you have a group of people that want to organize as DSA.” well they form an organizing committee, file some paperwork, meet some basic requirements, and become a chapter. we need to stop infantilizing our members