There's been talk among the NPC to remove this bylaw, which I hope happens cause its 100% leftover red scare shit. Also NPCs are literally telling people to just join other demcent orgs if they want, this hasn't really ever been enforced as far as I know. I think there was a trot group that got kicked out for doing something weird with a caucus but i forget the drama about it. PSL actually has the same sort of bylaw where you're not allowed to be part of ANY other socialist org, but i mean you still can lol
It was actually put in at the request of the New American Movement membership, and not the more anti-Communist Harrington-ite DSOC, because NAM had a lot of trouble with a run it or ruin it style attempt by a trotskyist party, iirc the FSP.
I know that Refoundation had a lot of trotskyist members, because the goal of the caucus was to try to turn the DSA into a labor party, either directly or indirectly. Don't know if there were any actual shenanigans, though.
There's been talk among the NPC to remove this bylaw, which I hope happens cause its 100% leftover red scare shit. Also NPCs are literally telling people to just join other demcent orgs if they want, this hasn't really ever been enforced as far as I know. I think there was a trot group that got kicked out for doing something weird with a caucus but i forget the drama about it. PSL actually has the same sort of bylaw where you're not allowed to be part of ANY other socialist org, but i mean you still can lol
It was actually put in at the request of the New American Movement membership, and not the more anti-Communist Harrington-ite DSOC, because NAM had a lot of trouble with a run it or ruin it style attempt by a trotskyist party, iirc the FSP.
I know that Refoundation had a lot of trotskyist members, because the goal of the caucus was to try to turn the DSA into a labor party, either directly or indirectly. Don't know if there were any actual shenanigans, though.
I dont remember what the drama was with Refoundation, was that when the bylaw was used or did they just decide to dissolve the caucus?
Iirc, they decided to spin out to their own org.
Then I think they dissolved shortly after, iirc.
But there could have been some internal stuff going on for as to why they did.
I know there's rumors, but they're just that, so I'm not gonna give them airtime.