Are they copying the Bolshevik play book?
Of course they are. This is their focus in life.
Nope.
This is what you should look at. The "Red Fighting Front"in 1920s Germany, who had the same relationship to the KPD as Antifa do to the DSA.
The Red Fighting Front was the muscle, the KPD was the theory.
Study up on their history - pay special attention to what had to be done to crush them.
Great article. Yes, the Left has been copyingh the Leninist playbook for decades. They take over the leadership of organizations so they can use the weight of the unwitting membership. They are interested in “legality only when it suits their tactical advantage.
The Democractic Socialists of America is collecting the results of all this into their bigger tent, making it visible. They obviously think the Democrat Party is hollowed out sufficiently for takeover.
Great article. Yes, the Left has been copying the Leninist playbook for decades. They take over the leadership of organizations so they can use the weight of the apathetic membership. Unions, teachers, school boards, even PTAs and vast numbers of NGOs. They use “legality” only when it suits their tactical advantage.
The Democractic Socialists of America is at the stage of attracting/collecting the results of all this into their bigger tent. Becoming visible is a necessary part of this. They obviously think the Democrat Party is hollowed out sufficiently for takeover.
In the Summer of 1917, the Bolsheviks made a premature run at takeover, but failed. Lenin survived, learned from the defeat, and managed the October coup accordingly. DSA is approaching the July Days stage now. It is time to crush them completely. We can expect them to learn and regroup in cycles until they take over, or are exterminated. The Tsarist State and Provisional Governments were too weak to do the necessary. The US constricts itself in chains of legality, as if Gulliver tied himself up for the convenience of the Lilliputians.
At least the Bolsheviks were trying something new.
The DSA can't make that argument.
The USSR failed. Venezuela failed. Cuba is failing. North Korea is on life support (thanks to support from China and Russia).
But that won't stop them from doing the same thing to USA.
There weren't that many Bolsheviks but they were very organized. The DSA is similar.