While mostly white “leftists” were inventing strategies based on missing analysis, there was an organization in the city doing all of this better: Community Movement Builders.

A critical appraisal of recent struggles in Atlanta

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      Nothing is a switch that happens instantly. Every reversal of power results from a buildup. If you were to apply the same rubric to conditions a year before various revolutions, you'd probably call them failures too.

      It's not "the contradictions of capitalism" that suddenly give people the initiative to change things. It's a long process of strengthening that makes this initiative possible, no matter whether it looks like "adventurism". It might come in waves, but each wave advances and supports the subsequent one, and you don't get anywhere if you don't start making waves.

    • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      so much shit: OWS effectively gave a platform to creat the bernie sanders runs for president, cancelled millions of dollars in debts, fed thousands of people, reclaimed foreclosed homes for people to live in, liberated spaces in cities for people to be safe from everyday police harassment, forced changes in plans by power is thousands of way. pay more attention because those victories are rarely mentioned, let alone ever celebrated, in the capitalist media. but they are there. and it is a part of radical practice to celebrate them.

      • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Are we talking about decentralized movements? Because I find it difficult to believe they would care about Bernie sanders or managed millions of dollars without any oversight

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Check out various medical debt jubilee groups. A bunch of them spun off the aftermath of Occupy and were buying batches of medical debt for pennies on the dollar then cancelling them.