Armed resistance¶

Correct. Armed resistance should not be the focus of an organization with ties to the state, and this is exactly why: when presented with the choice between something that even has a whiff of militancy, or maintaining liberal compatibility, they will always choose the latter. https://t.co/QbpxMQuXLg Liberalism is so hegemonic in the DSA that they can't bear to even associate with another totally legal nonprofit organization that has absolutely no inclination toward insurrection or anything close to it. "Let's learn about gun safety!" is too far, because there is absolutely no context in which a liberal organization could conceive of guns even entering into the equation. Not as small scale community defense against fascist violence, and certainly not as means of liberation. The fact that "We have our tax exempt status to worry about!" is even a topic of conversation, let alone the victorious argument, is quite telling when it comes to teasing out what the point of DSA is, or how successful you can be in altering its trajectory. Eventually, you have to ask what it is that drives DSA to still -- in the year 2025, with Nazis in the streets -- have such its dominant tendency be "Ewwww, guns??? But that's what RADICALS use 🤢" They can't even bear to touch radicalism, and you think there's a there there.