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

  • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        You could help make it big in your state though. :amerikkka: