Well, most of the unions are anti worker and not going to help them. Not that the existing ones cover any large amount of the workforce. The bizarre organizer bureaucracy the US has built up is also rudderless, now largely acting as a money pit.
So that leaves them in the position of trying to spark something spontaneously which does have a low success rate, but it isn't the zero that's being brought to the table elsewhere. I feel the same about this as I did when the chapos were crapping on the rent strike idea as being unserious, well, what was the serious thing? More editorials in indie mags? Writing a memoir? There was no other plan even proposed.
The silver lining of having so many experts who've won all of jack shit ought to be that it gives normal people a bit of confidence to go take those shots in the dark. At least nobody can say they see the target more clearly than you.
The rent strikers at least proposed making a program and instead of either leading themselves or offering a more coherent strategy our big brained super marxist threw cold water on the idea and went on to recap david lynch movies for the billionth time. This is really the core of the problem to me. We have people who have a ton of money, who have a ton of reach, and they are perfectly content being commentators forever. This gets framed as the serious marxist thinker that for some reason needs ever more money and attention.
Then we have the naive people with no resources fucking up because they are effectively alone, having to start from scratch perpetually because most of the funding the left generates burns away on ephemeral campaigns or minting the new bourgeois of the prior group. This is effectively the group who all movement and progress within the left depends upon, but they're unserious.
Well, most of the unions are anti worker and not going to help them. Not that the existing ones cover any large amount of the workforce. The bizarre organizer bureaucracy the US has built up is also rudderless, now largely acting as a money pit.
So that leaves them in the position of trying to spark something spontaneously which does have a low success rate, but it isn't the zero that's being brought to the table elsewhere. I feel the same about this as I did when the chapos were crapping on the rent strike idea as being unserious, well, what was the serious thing? More editorials in indie mags? Writing a memoir? There was no other plan even proposed.
The silver lining of having so many experts who've won all of jack shit ought to be that it gives normal people a bit of confidence to go take those shots in the dark. At least nobody can say they see the target more clearly than you.
It's not a plan, it's decentralized (neoliberal) random people doing things without being attached to any program
The rent strikers at least proposed making a program and instead of either leading themselves or offering a more coherent strategy our big brained super marxist threw cold water on the idea and went on to recap david lynch movies for the billionth time. This is really the core of the problem to me. We have people who have a ton of money, who have a ton of reach, and they are perfectly content being commentators forever. This gets framed as the serious marxist thinker that for some reason needs ever more money and attention.
Then we have the naive people with no resources fucking up because they are effectively alone, having to start from scratch perpetually because most of the funding the left generates burns away on ephemeral campaigns or minting the new bourgeois of the prior group. This is effectively the group who all movement and progress within the left depends upon, but they're unserious.