Do something
People are going to give you a list of books to read if you want to be a “real” communist, or anarchist, or whatever. Honestly, I don’t think there’s a demand for any more well-read leftists to debate theory and long-term plans online. What we have a demand for is leftists to go out and build the new world. Not that there aren’t people like that already, there just could always be more
Honestly, building a homemade wind turbine or composter for your neighbor, no charge, will go miles further in convincing them to join our cause than knowing exactly the right slogan and book recommendation for them. Feeding people will do so much more to change people’s view of the far-left than lectures online. And I mean, stuff like that is what’s going to change the world anyway, not figuring out all the little political minutiae – there are plenty of people who will gladly volunteer to figure that out once we’re at that point
Dual-power strategy is starting to gain some steam among the left which I am absolutely thrilled for – the idea that we can live in our ideal world relatively soon, and without violent revolution, is so incredibly exciting to me. But in order to make that happen we need people in the streets working
Check out my practical tag for projects and resources, then organize with your friends and neighbors to actually get to work. If you need help finding radical communities near you, DM me and I can look around for you
Edit: Also, please, please join a union
Also: do something together.
Trying to change what needs changing close to you is how you make a difference, but alone is difficult, demotivating and nowhere near as effective as combining forces.
If mobilizing your own neighbourhood or school isn’t your thing, find the activists already doing something and ask if you can help. I’ll give you a hint: the people to talk to are not on the podium giving speeches at the protest, they’re on the side of the podium patching up the speakers and at the backoffice making the food & unless you’re ready to start helping immediately, you wanna talk to them after they’re finished doing their thing.
