So this is something I've been doing for years in my semi-personal/organizing type interactions. But after scrolling through Instagram, I saw a post that posits that this isn't common knowledge?
You want working class people to show up and listen to you for an event? The solution is food, more food, and better food. All working class community events are built around food. The ones that aren't are built around drugs, and well I don't know many good orgs that started off by giving people free drugs. I'm kind of a lone wolf organizer as of right now, I do the shit I do for the left at my own apartment. My friends, along with my friends' friends, know they can just call me and say they're hungry, and I'll start cooking literally whatever I have in the apartment at that moment. If y'all heard me talk about the med thing I used to do in the mega thread, that was also just word of mouth amongst friends and people pulling up to my residence.
If you want people to believe you believe everybody on this planet should have food, put your money where your mouth is. Every serious socialist org should do regular potlucks. Neurotypicals that go to events and say "oh I'm here for the people" are lying to themselves and everybody else because that's all the neurotypicals are capable of. Numbers say y'all came here for food and stayed because of what you heard. That's just numbers talking. Offer food, and you get more people, and by actually feeding those people, you're showing you do more for them than their government and all the filthy capitalists who say they care. I radicalize people because they see how little I have, but they also see how hard I go to make sure I'm able to feed every motherfucker that comes through this house, and I speak with conviction. They know I'm a smart person, and once I feed them despite the fact that I often go hungry, they see my dedication to my ideals and they're more likely to be moved
I'm just an individual doing this, I fucking wish orgs around me would pick up the same energy and realize that human organizing has been based around food for thousands of years. Convince your org to get into food, and I mean good food. These people see the food you serve as a representation of the future if you're doing it as an org. The beans and rice work at my place because people understand that I'm an individual well below the poverty line. But for a whole ass org? Yeah y'all can't serve mid food, there's too much collective resource there for potential converts to give it a pass. Orgs have to serve great food.
You will find a million bolshevik pamphlets talking about the workers need for bread and supporting workers mutual aid societies; you will be hard pressed to find any examples of the bolsheviks bringing food to meetings to encourage attendance.
First the Bolsheviks weren't the only proletarian organization in history. Most proletarian organizations aren't vanguard parties. Second, this still doesn't mean they didn't have food at their meeting. Having food at their meetings could've been as obvious as having a fire lit in the winter.