Living in the States has me genuinely frightened. I’m not so naive as to suppose it’s not always been rough, but it’s clear we’ve entered a qualitatively different era. The moderate wing of fascism has died, and barbarism is all that remains.

I want to fight back in a substantive way, even if it’s small. I want to participate in institutions which protect the vulnerable, myself included. I don’t want to lock my doors and peek out the windows, but I know better than to engage in adventurist, individual “resistance.” I also don’t want to be in a social club where we sit and congratulate each other on having the right opinions. I’m past wanting to be on the “right side of history,” where I content myself with personally disagreeing with the nightmare we live in. Something needs to be done; the window for taking action is swinging shut.

I have almost no experience in organizing. I’ve attended a handful of protests which mostly felt like a venting of frustrations for everyone there. I’ve associated with a few comrades who had good intentions, but never accomplished much. That’s about it.

How do I actually go about being a part of something effective?

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 days ago

    You literally said:

    Helping people is great but directly tying that in with your communism is a good way to ruin both.

    Which is an incredibly misleading way to put things. This doesn’t need to be about you or I as ego, but about the points of view. And trying to make it about ego does no one any favors.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 days ago

      Yes I said that and then I went on to explain what I meant by this but you decided I was saying a bunch of other stuff.

      You didn’t raise objections to anything I said. You keep batting at your own misrepresentation of what I could be meaning ignoring the fact that there is an explanation of what I mean right there.

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        3 days ago

        I already went over that in another post, the one where I said: “Your clarification does not meaningfully change anything about what I was addressing.”

        Then instead of going through and telling me which parts are supposedly still a “misrepresentation”, you told me this:

        Again you didn’t read what I wrote. I never said “dont ortganize.”

        I am done talking with you. Your arguing against things I didn’t even come close to saying. If you want to argue in bad faith there’s a whole fediverse out there full of libs and chuds.

        I’m still not sure what is supposedly a misrepresentation. As it is, I never said that you said not to organize (that is a mouthful). I was addressing the idea of being openly communist as an individual, but not as an org. The idea of being secretly organizing with other communists was taken into account in my criticism of the point of view.

        I even emphasized it as an attribute of what I was talking about here:

        The concept of communist efforts as a whole solely being guerilla, but not even fully, because they’re actually calling attention to the fact that they’re communist while pretending not to be in orgs, is contradictory nonsense.

        So how is this claiming that you said “don’t organize”?