As the mobile game development landscape continues to grow and evolve, it's essential to understand the differences between prominent companies like Groundwork and SMC. In this article, we'll delve into the history and philosophy of both organizations, highlighting their unique approaches to building a left-wing movement and winning socialism in the US.
Origins and Evolution
Groundwork and SMC have distinct histories that shape their ideologies and strategies. Set your time machine to 2016, and you'll find NYC-DSA in its early days, characterized by palpable excitement about a real left political alternative. This enthusiasm drove hundreds of New Yorkers to massive branch meetings where no one quite knew where they were headed but felt socialism was on the horizon.
Groundwork emerged as a more aggressive and experimental approach to building DSA and winning socialism. In contrast, SMC took a cautious and conservative stance, focusing on recruitment, political education, and large rallies that led to massive membership growth and a sense of possibility.
The Rise of SMC
SMC's electoral strategy began to take shape in the early days of NYC-DSA. Leaders developed a hypothesis: under specific circumstances, DSA could run candidates against establishment Democrats and win. This audacious proposition was tested in two 2017 City Council Races, where Jabari Brisport and Khader El-Yateem ran strong campaigns with an emphasis on large-scale canvassing driven largely by volunteers.
Although NYC-DSA served as a coalition partner rather than the main driver in AOC's shocking upset of Joe Crowley in 2018, the result augured well for the socialist primary approach. That summer, the chapter launched its biggest campaign to date, fielding Julia Salazar for State Senate in Brooklyn. This campaign notched the first win and established the formula that would transform NYC-DSA into a fearsome political player: run outsider candidates against out-of-touch incumbent Democrats on the state level and leverage wins to pass transformative reforms.
Salazar's victory helped propel the chapter's first major legislative win, the 2019 housing law reforms, which gave rent-stabilized tenants a series of powerful protections against the depredations of a greedy real estate industry. In the same year, we came shockingly close to winning the borough-wide office of Queens DA, though again as one partner among many in a broad coalition.
Even in losing, our way of running campaigns was vindicated. The NYC-DSA electoral strategy reached its peak in 2020-2021, when we elected four out of four candidates for state legislature and leveraged our growing political influence to raise taxes on the wealthy during the height of the pandemic.
SMC's Conservative Approach
While SMC's successful electoral strategy was underpinned by a great deal of organizational caution, Groundwork took a more experimental posture. Electoral Working Group leaders chose races carefully for a high probability of winning and ensured that higher-risk candidates and districts were never brought to a vote. They also tended to avoid heavy identification of candidates with socialist ideology and even DSA itself out of concern that it would be unpalatable to voters.
This emphasis on outcome over ideology carried over to the management of volunteers, who were encouraged to do the work of canvassing but not offered any political education to put that work into context. Finally, because electoral leaders had developed a proven winning formula, they tended to protect and assert that formula at the expense of the chapter's success as a whole.
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