That fucking sucks. I'd like to say this isn't common, but a decent chunk of the older partyist orgs have a fanatically TERF-y old guard and they need purging. Not most, but many
That said, most leftist orgs aren't that, and I've seen more comradely left unity and getting our shit together in the last 5 years than anytime in my life. I'm more and more convinced that a Vanguard party will form out of a base of smaller mutual aid and activist networks with well-read people from multiple tendencies, that will slowly bring the political orgs on-board. Not from some 6th order split from the 4th international. Try some of those tactically focused groups.
If you need to take time to grill, get connected to your friends and material conditions again, do it. Really. At some point capitalism will intrude, and then you'll have something to do. We'll pick up the slack.
That fucking sucks. I'd like to say this isn't common, but a decent chunk of the older partyist orgs have a fanatically TERF-y old guard and they need purging. Not most, but many
That said, most leftist orgs aren't that, and I've seen more comradely left unity and getting our shit together in the last 5 years than anytime in my life. I'm more and more convinced that a Vanguard party will form out of a base of smaller mutual aid and activist networks with well-read people from multiple tendencies, that will slowly bring the political orgs on-board. Not from some 6th order split from the 4th international. Try some of those tactically focused groups.
If you need to take time to grill, get connected to your friends and material conditions again, do it. Really. At some point capitalism will intrude, and then you'll have something to do. We'll pick up the slack.
Just don't lose the cause.