Victims testimony in the link. Left the Party a few months ago but refrained from posting about it out of “discipline/not wanting to hurt the movement” on hexbear dot net but this shit is simply beyond the pale. anyone thinking about joining a socialist org deserves to know about this horrific garbage.
Obviously there’s no quick fix to patriarchy orremoved culture but the rotten, misogynistic, apologist, opportunist Becker clique has got to go if this org is going to be anything more than a hotbed of abuse and exploitation. I genuinely loved and respected my rank and file comrades, this shit makes my blood boil.
I don’t think we need to reach for “CIA assets” as an explanation for PSL’s limitations. Its far more simply explained by: “demcent organization has ossified leadership clique”. Tale as old as american communism.
Yeah, I don’t think Becker is an asset, he’s done decades of legit activism with Code Pink, About Face, and other good groups. But there’s def assets placed in every org, you can’t avoid it. It’s just so weird that there’s any relationship there at all.
While true, it is still super weird that a higher up in a communist party is pals with a “former” CIA officer.
Its not weird if Becker is more focused on building his independent media personality. Its not like sputnik news is a bastion of communist sympathy either. Dude sounds like Glen Greenwald mixed with Lyndon LaRouche.
Yeah, the show is defunct and now it’s just him and the producers from it putting on The Socialist Program podcast.
Or Russian communism.