I’ve been feeling a little antsy lately; both socially and just feeling like I need to do more. I live in a pretty major city but I also feel like people have been leaving DSA in droves and a lot of the work they do seems to be just canvassing for local candidates. Interested to just hear the thoughts of others who are still active in their local orgs to see if I’d be wasting my time joining.
For all the criticisms of the DSA, it’s the only remotely leftist org that remotely approaches the scale of a mass movement. There’s at least some utility in a large, nationwide org that is explicitly left of the Democratic Party and has “socialist” in the title. There really hasn’t been anything comparable since, what, before McCarthyism?