Yes I did something good for a bad person and now I feel like shit

Discuss. Obviously being nice to homophobic Palestinians, or douchebag homeless people is cool but where do you draw the line based on how shitty a person is and how shitty their conditions are?

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Well, working with the homeless is not 'praxis'. It is a good moral thing to do, but not 'praxis'. It does not build a revolutionary movement as the homeless do not have any means, theoretical or otherwise, by which to leverage power within the system. We know this because the wobblies already tried it better than you and it failed. As such, radicalizing the homeless is probably not high on the list of agenda items you should have. You can do it if you want, but if it fails, so what?

    Ugh this whole thread sucks.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, but without specifics it's morally totally meaningless. And the only reason to find morality in 'radicalizing' someone is if you think it's praxis, which was the seperate specific issue I was addressing, to which I said, helping the homeless is a morally good thing, but radicalizing them is neither here nor there.