I think I'm on the middle on this one. I've dropped out of several leftist orgs because it felt like nothing was being done. If I couldn't even get satisfaction from helping people or learning things, or help from others when I needed it, what was the org even doing? I already work 50 hours per week and I'm regularly exhausted, but most orgs I've been in didn't do much other than hold reading groups or desperately flail around confused, but would still hold a ton of meetings, hand out newspapers, assign reading, that kind of stuff.
Main exception being Food not Bombs. I adore them. They're the real thing. They're completely scatterbrained ideologically, but they're good people doing real work with the homeless and hungry.
Also I have no community attachment and I'm basically asocial. No friends or anything. Don't know how to rectify this if I'm gonna work with people.
You haven't really said anything I disagree with tbh. My point wasn't that you shouldn't expect orgs to do things it's that the nature of the doing shouldn't be transactional. More or less: if you're working as part of a transactional relationship then you're still operating with capitalist brainworms. If that makes sense?
Yeah I understand. I was in situations where I was putting in work that got wasted, so at some level I did feel like I wasn't getting anything in return. An org should at the very least take your work and apply it somehow, and if they aren't, why work with them?
I think I'm on the middle on this one. I've dropped out of several leftist orgs because it felt like nothing was being done. If I couldn't even get satisfaction from helping people or learning things, or help from others when I needed it, what was the org even doing? I already work 50 hours per week and I'm regularly exhausted, but most orgs I've been in didn't do much other than hold reading groups or desperately flail around confused, but would still hold a ton of meetings, hand out newspapers, assign reading, that kind of stuff.
Main exception being Food not Bombs. I adore them. They're the real thing. They're completely scatterbrained ideologically, but they're good people doing real work with the homeless and hungry.
Also I have no community attachment and I'm basically asocial. No friends or anything. Don't know how to rectify this if I'm gonna work with people.
You haven't really said anything I disagree with tbh. My point wasn't that you shouldn't expect orgs to do things it's that the nature of the doing shouldn't be transactional. More or less: if you're working as part of a transactional relationship then you're still operating with capitalist brainworms. If that makes sense?
Yeah I understand. I was in situations where I was putting in work that got wasted, so at some level I did feel like I wasn't getting anything in return. An org should at the very least take your work and apply it somehow, and if they aren't, why work with them?
Oof, that sucks. I'm sorry you had to deal with that. :(