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Anyone else in a dying org? (hexbear.net)
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I’m in a small-ish org. There are about 60 members total, but only 10 are actually active in any way. There are another 15-20 or so who are semi-regulars, or who will sometimes attend meetings, or sometimes attend demonstrations or actions etc with us.

It’s gotten really bad over the past few years as people have sort of started fading away. People are flaky, and it routinely takes several weeks to get an answer or an update from some members for even trivial things.

Several of us have tried doing social activities of all kinds, but they always end up the same.

This gets really embarrassing when we try to do things with other groups and can’t muster the numbers to be effective.

We’ve tried to do outreach to members to see what’s going on, and we just get the same explanation - I’m busy.

Has anyone here faced something similar? Any tips to get us out of this rut?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there like

Any organized opposition to youse splitting into a radlib and a patsoc party? sadness-abysmal

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's people even from both of these wings who oppose a split. People who agree with Wagenknecht's foreign policy and don't want the party to split because of for example the fear of two halves of the party both becoming undesirable. ...or libs who realize that losing half the membership and support would have disastrous consequences.

Thing is, having the party be held together by tape like this isn't a sustainable solution either, since it leads to constant infighting and finger pointing at 70+ year old boomers who love Putin, hate gay people and are nostalgic for the GDR on one hand and 23 year old sociology students from the inner city whose only politics are "no border, no nation - stop deportations!", LGBT+ rights and hoping the party start denouncing "human rights abuses" worldwide.

I know that with this knowledge, were I to move out of the Bavarian countryside, I'd probably not bother joining at this point. Maybe vote for them (unless the chapter's dominated by Antideutsche or something), but as it is now, the party is not even the graveyard of social movements - it's just there.