While mostly white “leftists” were inventing strategies based on missing analysis, there was an organization in the city doing all of this better: Community Movement Builders.

A critical appraisal of recent struggles in Atlanta

  • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    how little they achieved? they achieved way more than any other leftists ever have since the destruction of the labor movement.

    and if you don't see what those results are or think that they do not exist, you are falling for capitalist propaganda which tries to minimize the impact and effect radical action has.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 years ago

        Nothing is a switch that happens instantly. Every reversal of power results from a buildup. If you were to apply the same rubric to conditions a year before various revolutions, you'd probably call them failures too.

        It's not "the contradictions of capitalism" that suddenly give people the initiative to change things. It's a long process of strengthening that makes this initiative possible, no matter whether it looks like "adventurism". It might come in waves, but each wave advances and supports the subsequent one, and you don't get anywhere if you don't start making waves.

      • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        so much shit: OWS effectively gave a platform to creat the bernie sanders runs for president, cancelled millions of dollars in debts, fed thousands of people, reclaimed foreclosed homes for people to live in, liberated spaces in cities for people to be safe from everyday police harassment, forced changes in plans by power is thousands of way. pay more attention because those victories are rarely mentioned, let alone ever celebrated, in the capitalist media. but they are there. and it is a part of radical practice to celebrate them.

        • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Are we talking about decentralized movements? Because I find it difficult to believe they would care about Bernie sanders or managed millions of dollars without any oversight

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Check out various medical debt jubilee groups. A bunch of them spun off the aftermath of Occupy and were buying batches of medical debt for pennies on the dollar then cancelling them.