starkillerfish

workers party of belgium has a podcast called Fakto, they usually cover local and global events in an accessible way.

It’s because of the primaries next week, which is the election within the Democratic Party to decide their nominee for the actual election

What is "organizing" beyond education?

i recommend you join a socialist organisation or a union to learn about that, but to put it briefly - organising is the act of building power, getting people to pool their collective resources to pursue specific demands. if you do organise irl, you will know that the internet is not where you go to organise workers. you go to the factories, to the warehouses etc. You do realise that literally, materially not everyone has access to the internet, right? Due to time or monetary constraints for instance.

It resonates with people because the blood of this country IS poisoned. This country is possessed by a demon, and it needs an exorcism. And people feel this.

also this is nonsense language and strays close to reactionary. "blood of this country" is not materialist analysis

Education is only part of what is to be done, it is not the only thing that’s keeping a revolution from happening. Organizing people is just as important, if not more.

There are so many people right now who understand capitalism and socialism etc., but it does nothing for the struggle because they do not act to challenge power (mostly because they benefit from the status quo somehow). Even if everyone suddenly had perfect political consciousness, nothing would change because no work has been done to organise - building people’s power. Without it, you will not be able to fight the infinitely more organised power of the capitalist state.

Finally, the internet is not a direct line of communication to everyone. It reaches only a specific demographic. You can’t rely solely on it to build a mass movement.

Does it make sense? I get that we’re in the bloomer comm but I think it’s important to not stray into idealism.

Where is the line of playing the game though? If an org is effective, no amount of optics will protect it from the state. It is also kind of patronizing to say to people who are acting in self defense against ICE to "not take the bait". Like cmon, we’ve been through this with BLM.

If everyone in the world woke up tomorrow and knew what we know, the suffering would stop.

The only thing we must do to win, the only thing that truly matters, is to get everyone to understand.

And for the first time in history, we have a direct line to every single one of them.

I share your enthusiasm but your assessment is not correct.

maybe watch it

they dont need to say it

Do you have polling data on that or what

I think you are thinking of socdems for the phrase. DSA seem to be a bit more left than that

I would you are correct. I’ve never heard of the arguments that you are talking about, but it just sounds like someone who is trying to get out of the responsibility of making a more accessible environment.

The Panthers were largely Maoist. They lost.

What is Maoism to you, because I don’t think that the BPP would describe themselves as that.