Before discovering this community, I was in a different community that proudly calls itself leftist. I posted a documentary; Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang which was very eye-opening for me.
Anyway, posting that started to really upset people, saying that the documentary is PSL propaganda. That PSL is authoritarian, backed by a Chinese Maoist billionaire and that PSL is riddled with sex abuse scandals. That of course PSL would simp for DPRK because it’s authoritarian. I was even called a holocaust denier for defending DPRK.
So is PSL bad? Where can I find better information on this? I’ve already tried looking into PSL and it all seems okay? The sex abuse scandals I am not sure about, is there more information on this? Am I being too critical on this?
That PSL is authoritarian
They’re ML.
backed by a Chinese Maoist billionaire
Brian Becker is neither Chinese, Maoist, nor a billionaire.
PSL is riddled with sex abuse scandals
This is endemic to any dem-cent organization in the US. Idk how bad it has been at PSL but its not like a sex cult.
The main issue with the PSL is mostly around tactics. They do protests, they do protests well and I haven’t really seen them do much other than protests. They do engage in local political issues but its usually in the form of protests.
The PSL also hasn’t been very adept at appealing to the working class in the US. While they are leagues better than most on foreign policy, their rhetoric on domestic issues is severely lacking. Issues like student loans, housing, or medical expenses are rare in their literature. Without a concrete domestic program the PSL is an organization set to be on the right side of history but incapable of influencing that history.
- Decent org.
- Impressively active in protests and mutual aid. An area most western socialist parties often come short.
- Doesn’t suffer from sectarianism as much as other big left-unity/umbrella orgs like DSA.
- Can benefit from a more disciplined party line.
- Needs a stronger vetting process to prevent opportunists and perverts from seeping in.
- Needs to go full-blown anti-colonialist on the idea of the USA and appeal more to indigenous people via class intersectionality. I genuinely think the ‘land back’ movement is one of the biggest platform for a revolution in the imperial core.
PSL has been great in my experience. They do receive funding from a singaporean billionaire but I genuinely believe he is a class traitor
To add on to this point for clarity: revolutionary efforts have to be bankrolled from somewhere and there’s nothing glamorous or pure about poverty. “Receive funding from” is not always the same as “working for the class interests of.” Class traitors are a thing, as you say, and as far as I know, PSL behaves like an organization in the interests of the working class and the colonized, imperialized, etc. If it were to start acting in openly imperialist ways and funding pointed to a bunch of billionaires and filling its ranks with capitalists, that would be a different story.
One guy isn’t representative of the capitalist/imperialist class as a whole.
Thanks for the clarity, I’ll keep this in mind.
Neville Roy Singham. He also funds Vijay Prashad’s Tricontinental.
Based, Engels-pilled. If I get stupendously rich, I will do the same.
The most important thing to know about the PSL is that there’s a ton of misinformation and disinformation online from various kinds of sources. Find out for yourself what they believe and how they work by reading their websites and meeting them in real life. You can never trust what you hear online about communists.
