This one's for the ones who haven't seeked out a party or organization to join. I'm just curious what's stopping you? We're at the tail-end of a global pandemic and a deepening crisis within capitalism, and the sooner you develop the organizational skills necessary to navigate the coming years the better off you'll be to agitate for the working class, for the dispossessed etc.
This post isn't meant as an attack, just thought it'd be good to start a conversation on the matter. Perhaps there are things I haven't contemplated and I'd like to shine a light on my blind spots.
(p.s. shouldn't this comm be called askhexbear? idk)
I remember a comrade of mine back at the old trot org we both ended up leaving at once. She kept requesting security measures to be established before we turn up on any significant radars and like the most prominent member in the country said some shit like "If the Okhrana couldn't beat the Bolsheviks I doubt the (National security police) could do anything against us", which is both dumb cause the Okhrana did fuck up revolutionaries a lot but they got lucky in that exile was used as a punishment. Secondly its dumb cause like, theres no reason that a relatively non-active secret police cant decide to crack down all of a sudden and its bad to only start protecting yourself then.
I'm pretty sure that orgs start to get infiltrated as early as 5-15members. It is absolutely the ideal time because it's so early on and so incredibly easy to earn trust in the inner most circles during the early formative stages. Just be incredibly helpful to efforts initially, nuke it later if it becomes a problem, you have complete immunity as an early member.
there's something genuinely funny about a movement that hasn't updated its security practices for a century. like fuckin, Lenin's eyes would pop out of his head if you showed him a Gameboy, never mind tried to explain Facebook.