Active organization at 57% and rising :rosa-salute:
I wish there were more in my area, I’ve done some stuff with local DSA chapters, but most of my best stuff has been just spreading class consciousness to co-workers and getting them to start thinking collectively about things like wages.
You’d be surprised how many people in R2W states don’t even think about asking for raises. Like half the people I’ve ever worked with have never gotten raises and even more have never asked. Sometimes just reminding them that they need to look out for their own interests while showing them that everyone else they work with is in the same boat actually gets goods. Especially if you can get everyone to ask for raises around the same time, or if you can convince people to all go to management about the same thing or speak their mind at meetings and we all have each other’s backs.
By the way “protests” in most western liberal democracies are a sham and your political work has to be more than that. Most of them are glorified photo ops for lib politicians and the leadership of captured unions.
Where I’m at it’s barely worth showing up as a commie org because everyone there is either already affiliated with one org or another or are terminally liberal (or both), so it’s not even a particularly good place to recruit or do outreach.
I’d like to see another version of this poll which lets people pick multiple options of “what forms of political organising have you participated in recently” because genuinely if it’s just going to protests and posting it isn’t enough.
Fair enough if you have legit reasons why you can’t do more, but if you aren’t just because you can’t be bothered or are scared someone will call you dumb because you haven’t read the last 6% of Lenin’s letters to Kruspkaya that you’re gonna get around to any day now, it’s really not like that. You’ll learn just as much from being in a good org with principled comrades as you will from theory.
Yeh but when they’re only mobilising libs it’s pointless. You need them to be led by communist parties.
I’d like to see another version of this poll which lets people pick multiple options of “what forms of political organising have you participated in recently” because genuinely if it’s just going to protests and posting it isn’t enough
I considered this, but even a poll this broad still got accused of fedposting. I was hoping to make it general enough that it wouldn’t scare people off and bias the results too much
ive heard too many horror stories from orgs
the only org I’ve heard good things about is the DSA and they have their issues too…
Lmao.
The international chapter/IC seems cool with their foreign policy statements though
That’s just human interaction. I’ve heard horror stories about local musicians. That doesn’t mean I’m never attending a concert again. Organizing people is sometimes like herding cats, but it’s also sometimes like feeling empowered and at home for the first time in your life. It’s worth incorporating your own experience into whatever critiques you have
Trots organise all the big unions in my city so I tried to organise with them as we have crossover.
3 meetings in and they both-sided Israel-Palestine.
I am once again partyless.
I am once again partyless.
You left a union in you own environment because people active inside of it had bad takes on foreign policy? If you only want to engage with people who’re already at the same level as you are, you’re never going to achieve anything.
☑️I’m not a robot
#PostingIsPraxis
