OWS was also a "fake strike" but one that galvanized protests and riots that shaped the discourse enough to allow for Bernie's run. This has the same potential. It's already been called, now the point isn't to ask them to stop, the point is to get in there and organize them towards action. That's 31,000 people who would consider showing up to a demonstration which anyone with a loudspeaker could turn into a blockade, an occupation (of a square or a factory or a university or... or... or...), a dance party, a mutual aid network meet and greet, anything you've wanted to make happen but didn't have the people.
My point (and the point of the article I linked, though it's been a little while since I read it) wasn't telling them to stop this action, but rather that we need to focus our energy on real organizing, and that real organizing takes a lot more work than posting on :reddit-logo:.
I would love to be wrong :sicko-wistful:
If this turns out to be real, I will be out there joining them and spreading class consciousness right after I edit my post here about how I'm wrong.
You can call for gatherings and direct them into action. This is potential energy you can harness to socialist ends. Whether or not you're wrong is, in part, up to you.
This is a context that can be organized in, and we need to seize the moment.
OWS was also a "fake strike" but one that galvanized protests and riots that shaped the discourse enough to allow for Bernie's run. This has the same potential. It's already been called, now the point isn't to ask them to stop, the point is to get in there and organize them towards action. That's 31,000 people who would consider showing up to a demonstration which anyone with a loudspeaker could turn into a blockade, an occupation (of a square or a factory or a university or... or... or...), a dance party, a mutual aid network meet and greet, anything you've wanted to make happen but didn't have the people.
My point (and the point of the article I linked, though it's been a little while since I read it) wasn't telling them to stop this action, but rather that we need to focus our energy on real organizing, and that real organizing takes a lot more work than posting on :reddit-logo:.
I would love to be wrong :sicko-wistful:
If this turns out to be real, I will be out there joining them and spreading class consciousness right after I edit my post here about how I'm wrong.
You can call for gatherings and direct them into action. This is potential energy you can harness to socialist ends. Whether or not you're wrong is, in part, up to you.
This is a context that can be organized in, and we need to seize the moment.