I keep wanting to form some kind of housing cooperative for people seeking refuge from abusive situations, seeing as how there's currently fuck-all meaningful resources for adult survivors of childhood abuse. I know that despite this being completely nonviolent, legal, voluntary, and well-intentioned operation, that most people won't care or will actively support when some extremists decide to infiltrate and sabotage that effort. Manufactured consent and all. Why does nobody else do things like this? What has prevented the vast majority of other American leftists from simply crowdfunding their own communes, leaving the larger economy, and building their own means of production so that they aren't dependent on the rest of the world for permission to build systems of mutual aid?
I was being condescending not defensive. I'm well aware of the many failings of western leftism.
Fine, I'll bite. Who's "us" that I should be joining. What US leftist organization are you a part of that is currently figuring out the right approach?
I don't think there's a national organization that's figuring out the right approach, but everyone can be critical of what they're doing and try to push their orgs in the right direction or pull the best members into something better. I'm also not in the right location to work with them but I think the work of Dare to Struggle in New York is a step in the right direction and something for aspiring communists to learn from.
https://daretostrugglenyc.org/2022/12/25/summation-of-dare-to-struggle-fall-2022-jacob-riis-water-crisis/