What kind of leftist are you? What kind of leftist am I?

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Honest Thief: Jan 11, 2009

I'm the leftist who didn't do any reading until way later in life so I just hang around going "hell yeah" or faving memes hoping no one asks me if I know what words like stakhanovite mean

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Honest Thief: Jan 11, 2009

how you do that though? finding people doing work

I went to a couple of meetings for some groups at a suggestion by friends but they kinda blew, one was for a ER group and it was really bad

# ¿ Dec 30, 2019 16:28

Honest Thief: Jan 11, 2009

apropos to nothing posted:

where are you at? don’t have to say if you don’t want or could give a huge area. the reality is though joining an org or party should be a way to make yourself better at being an organizer. I didn’t live in Seattle when I joined socialist alternative but heard about them through what they did in Seattle back in like 2013. people from all around the country helped me learn how to be an organizer where I live.

if you live in Boise Idaho but theres an organization where the closest presence is in in San Diego but there’s people that are willing to talk to you once every week or two over the phone and give you resources to be more involved and active in class struggle then the distance doesn’t matter. ultimately you will need to organize with people physically close to you but sometimes learning from people very far away is how you begin to do it with people close to you, especially if you’re in a place where there isn’t any socialist organization present or doing anything or where there’s little to no active union presence

This is good advice, but I'm in Europe, Lisbon to be more precise, but it's still useful. My biggest hurdle though was overcoming the stigma of being seen (? lack of a better word) there's a lot of cultural heritage to not make big waves, even today, because of our late dictatorship. People just have the habit of keeping to themselves and not get involved.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2019 15:09

Honest Thief: Jan 11, 2009

apropos to nothing posted:

even if none of them seem to be doing the work you think is necessary there are international groups and parties all over europe (too many actually lol). you could try looking into some of their politics and seeing if any of them feel like a good fit.

yeah, look less for a perfect fit but a fit at least

Dreddout posted:

Dictatorships have a tendency to arise due to an apathetic populace so perhaps you lusiphones should lay off the sangria

lol more than half the populace was dying out of hunger, it wasn't so much apathy as lethargy

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