https://twitter.com/eiecampaign/status/1576108694311346177
#EnoughIsEnough for more content about it, photos and videos of turnouts look good.
Was at the Manchester one for a bit. Vibe was good, lots of noise, lots of nods from people just going about their day.
For a second I read "mechas in 50 towns and cities :isaac-pog:"
This isn't a labour party campaign. If it results in a labour win they will have to resolve all of the various crises occurring or they will see the same response come from the left.
What else should we do? NOT organise against all the concurrent crises occurring?
Using class-based analyses to organize and mobilize the working class to fight for improvements in material conditions is bad actually
A congresswoman wearing a "tax the rich" slogan on a designer dress attending a bourgeois function is actually pretty different from a bunch of workers mobilizing with "tax the rich" as one of their mechanisms for improving their material conditions.
But yeah maybe you're right instead the workers just shouldn't do anything, they should stay home and read Mao and wait for a generation of left movement-building occur magically.
Instead we should still be reading Mao, and then spreading his ideas to the masses of this movement, carefully incorporating them into its strategy moving forward, and embodying them in the ways we participate.
I sincerely hope that every British comrade is, if not joining them, at least thinking of ways to reach them. This has an undeniable momentum. I can feel it. The way it's been mobilized and presented so far, it would probably be a wasted opportunity and a failure on the part of whatever loosely-connected masses we call the Left here if we decide to give up before things even start.
To anyone reading this: Seriously, when you read the word "organize" directed at you on the internet, it's not just a suggestion that can be detached from your everyday responsibilities when you sign off. If you genuinely, in your heart and mind, believe in the cause of revolution against capital, you have a high-priority real world responsibility to make time for, then do everything in your power to organize with members of your class.
If you consider yourself communist, you are not "a regular person who happens to be into commie stuff" - You are a person. You are a communist. Those are separate statements about you, both equally true. You have both the responsibilities of a human dedicated to living, and the responsibilities of a communist dedicated to emancipation. If your communism ends or diminishes the moment your mind shifts away from online topics, it was never there to begin with. This postmodern, post-history scumfuck of a culture we live in makes us separate symbols from actions, and you have to consciously resist that. This goes for me, you, and virtually anyone else who's ever browsed this site and taken in any new ideas or experiences whatsoever.
The bluntest way I can put it to any reader is: Leftism is not a hobby, or a fandom, or a topic of niche forum discussion. This is real, it is happening in your world, and therefore if you decide to simply ignore it, your communist values must somehow be less real to you than reality. And we can't settle for anything less. So play a part, either by standing with these people, or by simply talking to them. There is no third option. That would be defeat.
If you genuinely, in your heart and mind, believe in the cause of revolution against capital, you have a high-priority real world responsibility to make time for, then do everything in your power to organize with members your class.
but doctor, I'm bourgeois
Sorry, maybe I should've worded it differently. It wasn't directed at anything you said, just at any reader. I meant it as general advice in case even a single person here is too online for real action, not as a retort.
