Today’s episode is about proletarian discipline, party discipline. DSA has recently had an internal debate about Jamaal Bowman’s refusal to support the Palestinian solidarity movement BDS.

GRAMSCI
Gramci’s Concept of Subaltern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_(postcolonialism)

DISCIPLINE
Jodi Dean’s Article on Discipline
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/comrades-political-organizing-discipline-jodi-dean

Republican Party Discipline of Liz Cheney
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/15/liz-cheney-wyoming-republican-party-trump

DSA’s ban on democratic centralism
https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/constitution/#P1N

Leninist Discipline
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Party+dicipline

Know Your Enemy #36 on Jan 6
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-your-enemy/id1462703434?i=1000529390998

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DSA CAUCUSES AND ELECTION SLATES

Libertarian Socialist Caucus
https://dsa-lsc.org/2021/07/19/lsc-democratic-socialism-a-short-history/

Bread & Roses Caucus
https://breadandrosesdsa.org/
https://breadandrosesdsa.org/convention-2021-slate/

The Green New Deal Slate
https://keywiki.org/DSA_Green_New_Deal_Slate

Socialist Majority
https://www.socialistmajority.com/

Renewal Slate
https://www.dsarenewal.org/our-npc-slate/

Other DSA Caucasus
https://reformandrevolution.org/2021/09/08/whos-who-in-dsa-a-guide-to-dsa-caucuses/

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PALESTINE & BDS

History of Palestine
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/throughline/id1451109634?i=1000523361687

Israeli Settlements
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement

Natural Resource Extraction during British Mandate
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/30714

1936-1939 Arab Revolt
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine

Palestinians have sovereign authority over their natural resources
https://imemc.org/article/wafa-un-general-assembly-passes-vote-affirms-palestinian-sovereignty-over-their-natural-resources/

DSA departed from the Socialist International
https://www.leftvoice.org/DSA-Votes-for-BDS-Reparations-and-Out-of-the-Socialist-International/

NY DSA Revolutions Per Minute podcast on the BDS Movement
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions-per-minute-radio-from-new-york-city-democratic/id1450411809?i=1000524165027

J Street’s Rejection of the BDS Movement
https://jstreet.org/wrong-way-oppose-bds/#.YcFAIy-cZQI


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JAMAAL BOWMAN

DSA “Unity For Unity, not Unanimity: Palestine, Jamaal Bowman, and DSA”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d_FBOWt5JqyFvQn5BQuqDBvLe67rLCXKbI0CABhJHx4/edit

Jamaal Bowman
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/11/democratic-socialists-j-street-bds-israel-palestine-iron-dome-aoc

Jamaal Bowman Tempest Timeline
https://www.facebook.com/tempestmag/photos/a.144058903928771/411153303885995/?type=3

DSA Caucus’s Response to Jamaal Bowman
https://www.tempestmag.org/2021/12/on-not-expelling-jamaal-bowman/

DSA BDS & Palestine Solidarity WG
https://palestine.dsausa.org/bowmans-j-street-zionist-propaganda-trip-to-apartheid-israel-must-not-stand/

DSA Statement
https://www.dsausa.org/statements/on-the-question-of-expelling-rep-bowman/