What's a good follow up to Settlers? Incredibly blackpilling book, surely, but surely there's a follow up discussing things that can be done.
erik_houdini
joined 1 year ago
Capitalism is a meritocracy! but also:
The PSL’s prohibition on “horizontal”, viz., free communication between party members clearly has nothing at all to do with Leninist democratic centralism and everything to do with **Trotskyist **distortions of the very concept. Imagine if Lenin himself was not allowed correspondence with members of his own party regarding matters of the party except if his local leadership had allowed it. In the present day, imagine a scenario in which one party member was suffering abuse from another and, rather than help that member to safety and immediately launch an investigation into the matter, the instance was dismissed and covered-up under the guise of “horizontal communications”; this second scenario doesn’t need to be imagined, as it has actually happened to myself and others within the party.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210308201711/https://noviydialectic.medium.com/women-and-the-vanguard-party-why-im-resigning-from-the-psl-30453e819147 https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/kjzc00/ruthless_criticism_but_keep_it_to_yourself/
Marcyist, Trotskyist, what's the difference comrade, we have newspapers to sell. Please know that I won't bad-mouth a communist party publicly, here I am among fellow Marxists (and some Anarchists), so its different.
He's a PSL member
It's kind of ironic, I haven't started the job yet, and I don't even know if I'll be able to take this opportunity because I'm too damn broke to get everything I need to fucking... get licensed and... such. My driver's license was expired, I gotta handle that, my... I need to buy a suit and... all these other little things, I'm short on my rent. Shit, it's not looking good. But... we'll see. Because this is a sales job, so... You don't have a motherfucker who... advocates for Medicare for All, selling Medicare plans. Ain't that a motherfucker, huh? That's something I had to reconcile. But see... I was working in tech, man. And I don't give a fuck what... position you in. If you working in tech... Yo shit... You, you got blood on your hands, like... When you work for Microsoft, who built the AI that's killing the Palestinians? Microsoft. You work for a contracting company, who you really working for? You work for the government. There's no escaping that if you work in tech. So, I mean, at the end of the day... I can't put too much... weight into my own ethical choices when I'm only... The reason I'm taking this job is because I don't want to get called back at the end of the day. And yeah, man, I know what it is to have to try to reconcile that shit. I got friends who are doing... mandatory minimums... for the same shit I was doing. I got friends... You know, my grandfather did 25 years in prison... for selling crack. Like... He's a motherfucker. He's... Growing up with no... power sometimes, having a... leaky roof. And now you're looking at... making enough money to possibly be able to pay for my friend's healthcare and shit. Who's to tell me I can't go get that money? At the end of the day... That money, in my head, is going to pay for a lot... better shit. And do a lot more work. And do a lot more work. And do a lot more work. And do a lot more work.
POV: You've joined the DSA
You would be better off using 4chan, at least you don't need an account. It's the same type of posts.
Check your stories, and see who's viewing them. I've done this type of thing before, and you'll notice that you'll have a lot of people who you don't follow start watching your stories.
yooo what's Carti up to
I'm in this weird spot right now where, you know, I've been unemployed for three months. I'm basically out of money and out of things I can sell to get money, and I've borrowed money from, you know, a lot of friends at this point. And it's not a good look, though, because before I got laid off, they stole my last check, and by the time I finally got it, it was only half my pay, and then there was PayPal fees, because I sent it through PayPal, and it's a long story. But at the same time, I have been expended a job offer that if I can get this license taken care of and handled, which is going to cost me money I don't have, then I could potentially make a good amount of money, like more than I was making any job before this one. And it's such a weird feeling where it's like cabinets are empty, rent is short, but maybe, just maybe, we'll be okay. I don't know.
Basically out of options, and trying not to scream as loud as I can.
Completely out of touch with how the majority of Americans spend their money. Most of us don't even have savings! Why would I bother with savings when the $1000 Dave Ramsey suggests is actually $300 in real money? Imma buy the damn PS5
Asked this in my group chat, figured I ask it here as well. Why don't any of these parties apply anarchist tactics within the party frame work to build dual power and do praxis? My experience with organizing IRL is mostly stuff like Food Not Bombs Things like tactical urbanism
I see this a lot in my neighborhood, most of the bus stops lack shade or a place to sit, so you'll have old and disabled ppl forced to stand. Saw a old lady with a walker having to wait like that. Tactical urbanism would be getting together and building benches for those bus stops no cross walks in my neighborhood, we could fix that
communists tend to be more educated than average, we could be helping people get their GEDs, holding classes funded and organized by the party, this appeals directly to the masses, you help someone get their GED? You'll have a loyal comrade.
I have a friend who is a school teacher, a science teacher. She has four classes of students, each with about 30 kids in it. She's given $300 at the start of the school year to buy all of her supplies. Not only would it be an incredible propaganda win to go, Hey, look, the Communist Party is supplying schoolteachers with the supplies to teach your kids. Because the current regime won't provide for your kids. You see what I'm saying? We have to build that dual power. We have to improve the material conditions of the working class.
I mean, this could range from anything from helping the homeless have food in their belly, setting up mobile libraries, setting up coat drives, cooling centers, building bus benches, running workshops, building impromptu third spaces, guerrilla gardening, lot cleanup, Alleyway restoration. Like, if a party has numbers and has people paying dues, those people should be being put to work, and those dues should be being spent building the dual power and improving the work that can be done.
To me, if I join a party, that's what I want to be doing. I want to be put to work. I want to be with a leadership that is trying to get work done. I'm trying to stack W's, and my concern is that I'll join one of these parties, and we'll just be selling newspapers, which is, I guess, important. I mean, I run a blog, but I want to do things that I couldn't do alone and have zero interest in reformist electoralism within this settler state. Maybe they do these things already and I'm just ignorant.