Or, if you don’t like roleplay, you can get involved in your local and county elections, push candidates that lean towards social reform and socialist platforms, even if slightly, because that’s literally the best we can fucking hope for, so every time you kids splinter off and decide to start like, saluting Soviet flags and shit, you’re just wheeling the whole cart backwards.
Because they don’t all do that. A lot of organizations dedicated to more niche politics just do really cringe ceremonial/performative stuff, and do all their activism and mobility online, or have really deluded ideas that a predominantly liberal/conservative country is going to get behind costumed tankies and the like.
We have to use the system as it is to change the system, we don’t get to C without passing A and B first.
Join a Marxist organization and build a socialist revolution. Communists are historically the most effective weapon against fascism.
Or, if you don’t like roleplay, you can get involved in your local and county elections, push candidates that lean towards social reform and socialist platforms, even if slightly, because that’s literally the best we can fucking hope for, so every time you kids splinter off and decide to start like, saluting Soviet flags and shit, you’re just wheeling the whole cart backwards.
Joining socialist organizations doesn’t mean abandoning local politics. If anything, it means getting more involved.
Sure, go for it, if that’s what they actually do.
Because they don’t all do that. A lot of organizations dedicated to more niche politics just do really cringe ceremonial/performative stuff, and do all their activism and mobility online, or have really deluded ideas that a predominantly liberal/conservative country is going to get behind costumed tankies and the like.
We have to use the system as it is to change the system, we don’t get to C without passing A and B first.