Yes, but you need numbers and it's fucking difficult. Amazon warehouses are the organizers dream, but they have their own internal intelligence that monitors workers and tons of snitches. I would do the work of getting to know everyone you can before making any moves. You can't even say the U word until you genuinely know as many people on your work floor as possible
Well once you get that core group of people ideally it's not just you. But, again you would still need to be the catalyst and you still need as many people as you can get before you ask for outside help
This is bad advice. People respond well to communist rhetoric in plain english, but badly to pictures of Marx.
Marx looks like amazing tho, straight fire, 11/10, his mere presence creates 100 Red Guards, that how he became life dictator of all-communist France
You are guilty of revisionism
Contact a union. Both conventional (like the ILWU) and radical (The IWW). They might not help, but reaching out can help them lay the groundwork and know where there are activated workers for them to organize.
If every investment banker in New York went on strike, nothing would much change in America. If every plumber decided to stop working, every electrician, the country comes to a halt. I mean, literally, not figuratively, literally, it comes to a damn halt.
Tonight I am calling on every American to commence a general strike effective immediately. All campaign donations will go directly to a general strike fund for workers, every cent will put food on a striking worker's table.
We have a single demand: complete worker ownership of every company. If this demand is not met, we will destroy the global economy with zero hesitation.
This is your last chance for a peaceful transition of power and let me tell you something: you should take it. Because the next step? Well the next step is armed revolution and I'm strapped, Jack. I'm armed to the teeth.
I will make Hồ Chí Minh look like Rachel Fucking Maddow, I swear on the graves of my dead wife and children. Surrend the means of production or we will take it by force and leave your body rotting in the street. No malarkey, I'm a man of my word.
Folks, the rich only seem powerful because we are on our knees. Let us rise.
:biden:.
For the first time in the protests, a neutral third party (not a protester, not a cop or counterprotester, but a security guard hired by news reporters) had to use deadly force in self defense, and it wasn't against the radical anarcho-antifas 🤔
security guard hired by news reporters
media people: communism is evil
also media people [shrieking like pigs because they're cowardly fascists]
It's a clear outcome of Trump screaming "The media are the enemy of hte people" for four years. I'm honestly surprised it was a Pinkerton (WTF?) shooting a Chud and not a Chud opening up on a news crew with an AR.
Anyone notice reactionary/radlib stuff on reddit gets challenged less since the ban? Maybe I'm just imagining it but it feels like the queer subs that felt at least somewhat radical are noticeably less so. That, and r/CA seems to spend half their time complaining about MLs.
i've completely abandoned reddit since the ban, aside from extremely select specialty subs, where reddit's parasitic nature leaves no other forums available on the topic.
Reddit blows. It's just lib 4chan. Not interested in some idiot in the burbs or hip city center telling me the Patriot Act isn't a bit deal its those damn chinese
Pass. Huge pass
There were tens of thousands of people on /r/Chapo and we were like the top 3 most active sub despite being like the 100th sub by size. People constantly accused /r/Chapo of brigading but actually we were just that fucking online.
Wait, Pinkertons are still around? The Fuck!? And they shot someone other than a union member?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkBLUjuWsAEKpGG?format=jpg&name=large They never really went away, actually, though they don't do so much union busting and detective work these days. They're basically corporate security and intelligence contractors, now owned by these guys.
corporate security and intelligence contractors
Still union busting, tho.
At least in my area the Securitas company bought the pinkertons and uses all their paperwork on the backend. I don't know how it works in a corporate sense. I know they go all the way into PMC contracting and government contracts but the entire industry is surprisingly shady.
It's the wild wild world of the American Hegemonic Military - Industrial - Espionage - Information - Marketing -Technology -Who even fucking knows - Complex.
There's just this vast, muddy swamp of weirdly interconnected arms companies, government agencies, private espionage groups, mercenary contractors, security firms, banks. Like a whole fucking economy within the economy that's just full of spies and mercs and shit.
The same guys who provide security for your local car garage might, in some weird esoteric thread of corporate malfeasance, also be selling missiles to Ukrainian neo-nazis.
this sites pretty cool. i joined the old sub at like 700 subscribers, cant believe im still here lol and even still listen to the pod sometimes .
i think i've listened to maybe two episodes of the podcast, the only one i remember being the pisspiggrandad one lol
yeah, it's a pretty cool pivot from literally fighting ISIS. podcasts are just a medium that don't click with me unfortunately.
He also successfully helped organize a union at anchor steam brewery in between those two events. Quite the impressive accomplishments.
they were my beer of choice when i still drank because of that. based asf
I've been under the impression that this is done by third parties for plausible deniability, but it all happens with the tacit approval of the platforms. The platform operators and advertisers all know posts are a much more effective form of advertisement than little boxes on the side of the page.
My best friend died on this day 14 years ago. What a title for this megathread
From each according to their wet ability, to each according to their sticky needs
The DSA should really consider a PR campaign that offers education about the history of socialism to people. The intended audience would be liberals under the age of 45 with a household income under $90k
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like half the members are part of the "online left" anyway
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would boost membership numbers
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full of libs who aren't going to do anything "revolutionary" anyway, this sets the stage for them to do cool stuff in the future
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would educate members internally along the way (cause like I said they have too many liberals still), so the liberal-to-left pipeline would be wide open
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it'd be funny to have the "paid posters" meme come to life
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a lot of the online left is too irony poisoned to message effectively, when there are a lot of radlibs who we could actually mold into comrades and comrade-recruiters.
The issue though is that I'm just letting myself get infected with "posting is praxis" brain.
Take out Facebook ads targeting 12 year olds that just say “posting is praxis” and wait for the seeds to grow into the communist revolution.
Yes, but also fundraise and then pay out the ass for some corporate marketers to rub focus groups and create an ad campaign.
Set up a platform "texting for Bernie" style, just like CTR did.
Produce high quality educational videos, texts, and classes for anyone to access. They should cover all aspects of socialism. Building out to a real educational platform would be the next step. You could even get a little diploma or certificate by following a particular curriculum, liberals love certs. It doesn't even need to be sectarian at all, just quality information.
Cause it's late, and I'm bored, here are some courses I'd want to see:
- History of American Labor
- The Russian Revolution
- The Chinese Revolution
- Colonialism: then and now
- The liberalization of Europe
- Anarchism and Libertarian Socialist Theory
- Anarchist History
- Democratic and Leadership Theory I & II
- The Spanish Civil War
- Intro to Soviet History
- Command Economics
- Worker Owned Enterprises and Unionization
- Intro to Modern China
- Fascism and Anti-fascism
- The Cuban Revolution
- Marxism I II & III
- Latin American Socialism
- Leninism and Maoism
- Post-colonial Vietnam
- Environmentalist movements and science
- Media literacy
- Intro to foreign relations
- Community Organizing
- Mutual Aid networks
- Street Medic I & II
- Information and Operational Security
- Gender and Sexual Liberation
- Feminist History and Theory
- African-American History
- Indian and First Nations history
Diplomas include: Labor history, Labor organizing, Marxism, Libertarian Socialist Studies, Political Organizing, Leadership
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TC69 posted a thread asking for all users to set pronoun tags. Most users generally accept this as good practice to minimize misgendering, namely for our trans/nb comrades to make the site a more welcoming and safe community. Some users felt unduly pressured into setting them and took issue with that, some objected for opsec reasons, and a handful went mask-off with blatantly transphobic shit.
I don't see the continuing threads as productive, personally. Some users simply refuse to set them and their minds won't be imminently changed. Once setting pronouns becomes required for registration, that should clear up the issue a lot.
Broke: Understanding the need for the Great Purge by reading history books
Woke: Understanding the need for the Great Purge due to people not wanting to set their pronoun
Afaik I'm the only person to get banned who wasn't actually spewing hate, and I'm now unbanned upon request. I am honored to be the first victim of the sectarian purges and I eagerly await the Zoomer Revolution so that I can be gulag'd IRL.
Italians are an indigenous people. When we let them return to their native lands, their contributions to African cinema are amazing. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is one of the best films of all time and was shot in the still-culturally Umayyad Spain.
PSL has been going around my city and putting up signs and canvasing for La Riva. It's actually pretty cool to see a third party actually run a real campaign.
I love PSL but I personally would vote Green cause they have a bigger chance of hitting that sweet 5% mark since they're larger, more well known, and have ballot access in more states. I agree with PSL and will probably join them sometime in the future more but Howie could easily radicalize people further to the left.
Hearing this song on the vlogs instantly rocketed me to 2010-2015, I saw that whole 5 year span flash in front of my eyes. I forgot that I too have an unhealthy attachment to Cake lol.
what do you mean starting?
:horror: ah shit, forget i said that. this comment never happened
