Talk:Democratic Workers Party

Janja Lalich
It seems that most of this article is based on writings by Janja Lalich, an ex-member and anti-cultist... more references are required. Zambelo ; talk 07:28, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Birthdate
Changed Dixon's year of birth to 1936 based on this: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=93344365&PIpi=63209896 23.241.127.48 (talk) 06:28, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

DWP as political cult
I reverted an editor who removed mention of the DWP being perceived as a political cult, arguing it "lacks DUE weight." In fact, most coverage of the DWP since its dissolution explicitly portrays it as a political cult, namely the book Bounded Choice by Janja Lalich and chapter 9 of Beyond the Edge: Political Cults Left and Right by Tim Wohlforth. So I see no purpose in removing the characterization. --Ismail (talk) 23:48, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Max Elbaum's book
I read about the DWP in Revolution in the Air which presents the group a little differently from this article. He describes Dixon as abusive and making crazy demands on her followers' time...but then all the New Communist Movement groups were pretty hierarchical and authoritarian. And he sees the DWP as better than their competitors in some ways--their female leadership (unique in that milieu) and integration of theoretical influences outside the usual Marxist-Leninist canon. He doesn't describe them as a cult, but maybe all the NCM groups were cults Prezbo (talk) 22:39, 13 October 2022 (UTC)