LesbianLiberty [she/her]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • I understand where you’re coming from, but I should highlight that branches of the PSL do participate in local struggles, I can even speak for local struggles here where we’ve made headway; and a huge part of the PSL’s notoriety at this point is due to various branch’s participation in and headlining of local pro-Palestinian struggle. However, I should share that being on the ground itself the presidential campaign has been a great way to connect with people outside of “radical circles”, even ignoring the organizational and strategic benefits that it’s brought.

    By running a campaign which shows how bankrupt both candidates are, we’re not only clearing the way for future growth (ala the periods of major upheavel between the two parties like the rise of the Populist Party) but also highlighting to regular working people how our system has fundamental contradictions with common sense humanity and how it needs to be corrected. People really aren’t stupid, they’re able to see when they’re being played, and this campaign and what it ultimately highlights as the solution is effective for just those people who realize they’re being played. This is outreach to the majority of people, with the benefit of spurring discussion among people who would be amenable to working with or within a well organized party structure.

    If you’re interested in more justifications for this policy by the party, an article is available here on Liberation School. I think ultimately even if we end up disagreeing on this, the results will show for themselves whether this contributed towards building a nationwide anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist party and movement in the United States.






  • The organizational muscles need to build a large party apparatus and connect with the community need to be built, the party isn’t merely a spring that can be shot all at once but a rolling snowball that’ll turn into an avalanche. There’s lots of effective work that the party does nationwide, but these campaigns are a great way to get an ML party in people’s faces and a way for the national level of the party to coordinate work between local branches and members and find systemic issues of organization in the party exposed by this effort


  • The fact that we’re talking about and debating this is the point of running a candidate. The Party and it’s members have to flex their organizational muscles and work towards building the scaffolding for a truly meaningful and truly revolutionary party in the future; and running a campaign to highlight for many how much of a scam the elections are has been extremely effective in the past and continues to now be extremely effective in putting the PSL at the forefront of conversation for anti-imperialist movements.

    We won’t win, we just have a great excuse to talk to people at a point when they’re having their lack of meaningful governing power highlighted by the genocide and the election.