Honestly I just feel kind of powerless and hopeless.
Like...maybe I could join some organization, but left wing politics in the west just seems like a joke, either full of socdems or just fractured beyond belief.
One of the "easiest" things I guess I could do is just talk to people I know about politics. But, I honestly don't even know if Americans can be reached at this point. Assuming they can, I still don't know what the best course of action would be. Is it better to just be a super commie and radical to serve as some counterpoint to all their other influences? Or do people arrive at their own conclusions on their own time and I should just subtly plant seeds? One would certainly be safer, both in keeping my relationships intact and not having the government shove me into a van.
It seems futile, I am powerless against the osmosis of our society, even if I plant seeds, it means nothing if no one is there to water them. The one thing I can do on my own means nothing because I am a drop in the bucket of the cultural zeitgeist people are influenced by everyday. And any kind of collective action I could take just seems untenable.
idk I am just rambling
I'm pretty nondenominational (haha get it because leftist groups are like religions) I probably lean more ML or Leftcom, but I haven't read enough to really say and again I find the whole process of doing so kind of pointless, feel free to recommend some. I am honestly just going to hitch my horse to whoever seems more likely to accomplish anything tbh.
PSL is growing fast and has pretty good politics and action. Their journalism site: https://www.liberationnews.org/ - and their political ed. site, where you'll find a lot of the core of their line: https://liberationschool.org/
DSA is going to be more large tent and less explicitly communist, though they have a revolutionary caucus.
Green Party claims to be socialist now but idk
CPUSA is still around but I don't know too much about them, apart from the typical rumors of infiltration and revisionism
There's a bunch of Maoist parties out there, but I don't know a ton about them and I think they're generally a lot smaller.
I don't think PSL has that big a presence in my state if they aren't on the ballot. I'll probably just look into DSA, it seems decently big enough and from what I can tell from twitter the local group doesn't seem that libby.
You could help make it big in your state though. :amerikkka: