real democratic centralism is the heart of democracy, and one of the things DSA needs to improve at is implementing democratic centralism, but what CPUSA does under that name is an absurd caricature of it

i don't know as much about PSL, but my understanding is that many of these same dynamics are at play there. fyi if you were gonna join one of those, PSL is 1000x better than CPUSA because they have at least been on the frontlines of palestine protests since october