Episode 300 - Party Time? (w/ Philip Locker & Scott Karolidis)
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4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Two DSA members from different sides of an internal divide over the direction the organization should take -- Philip Locker and Scott Karolidis -- join Bad Faith to discuss the National DSA Convention that happened earlier this month. What's the status of resolutions to make DSA run like a political party? Can it hold squad members accountable? Should the organizational require ideological litmus tests? And will they endorse Cornel West?
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| 0:16.0 | . All right. So as many of you are aware, there was a DSA convention a few weeks ago that really, I think, in some ways, crystallized the debate, tension, happy disagreements that have been happening on the left in the post-Burney 2020 era |
| 0:58.1 | about how the left broadly should proceed, how the Democratic Socialists of America |
| 1:03.8 | specifically should proceed, whether or not various high-profile members of the DSA are actually good avatars for the movement. |
| 1:15.0 | And I'm so glad, one, to have had that event, generally speaking, and two, to have two people |
| 1:21.0 | who represent kind of different sides of that argument, join on bad faith today to kind of |
| 1:25.8 | flesh out both what happened there at the convention |
| 1:28.5 | and what the kind of internal conversations to DSA are because I do think there's a perception |
| 1:33.0 | that, you know, DSA thinks one thing, whereas Socialist alternative will think another thing |
| 1:38.9 | and that there is a kind of uniformity of belief within DSA. I until recently was a DSA member. I know that many people are both |
| 1:47.1 | DSA and Socialist Alternative, and I think it is much more productive than kind of flinging around |
| 1:52.5 | claims of entreeism and the like, just sit down with folks to have a good faith conversation |
| 1:58.9 | about what this is all about. So without further ado, we have Philip |
| 2:02.6 | Locker, who is with the Reform and Revolution Caucus, which you can find at Reform and Revolution.org, |
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