My understanding is that put a lot of pressure on members dues, have some kind yearly dues drive with a lot of social pressure to give something like 12% percent of your paycheck, and if you’re unemployed they still pressure for $250 (it was the bottom cap for giving). They shame people that don’t. My source is an ex-member, but this is a person I know personally and trust wouldn’t say something that was a lie on purpose.

Other practices that I find concerning:

• Chapter-to-chapter communication not allowed. Seems unhealthy that chapters can’t communicate about their conditions and approaches to highlighting contradictions.
• No contradiction agitating, only contradiction propaganda (per Lenin’s WITBD differentiation)
• Why so insular about general chapter bylaws? Lenin was interested in being secretive because of the persecution happening in Tsarist Russia; it was an adaption to their material conditions (people were being jailed for a lot less political activism than today).
• Hot & Cold about coalitions: willing to drop out of a coalition if they don’t feel like they’re running the show, I’ve seen this happen in two different chapters so I assume this is their standard MO