5: alcoholic labor history nerd trying to make the IWW a thing here
man can you not call me out like this
7: say you know better than everyone else and start your own group consisting of yourself and your pet cats
Great, we're speedrunning the International Workingman's Association again.
join the local Republican/conservative party and call all the leadership woke pedophiles. Maybe make some fake texts or something? Might be cool.
go to the DSA, steal their stuff and make some friends in the ML party, if they try to convince you to do adventurism tell them to fuck off. in the weekends check out the trots, but mostly stick with the alcoholic labor nerd and maybe visit the soup kitchen too.
rule of thumb, don't mix politics and relationships in the same manner you don't mix work and politics. Once in a while it may work out, but that's a pretty risky dice roll on possibly making your private and professional life messy.
I mean, mixing work and politics is kind of the entire point of Socialism and you should do it if you can. I get why people don't want to get fired day 1 for putting up union posters in the lunch room, though.
Which org should I join in my city?
-
Demsocs rapidly sliding centrewards (who could have guessed?)
-
MLs protecting serial sexual harasser
-
Trots protecting serial sexual harassers
-
Other Trots defending serial sexual harassers (DO NOT confuse with the other Trots, both will despise you)
-
Some weird MLM party
-
An even smaller Maoist party, either split from the MLM party or vice versa, we’ll never know which
-
IWW branch that does something occasionally
-
Honestly, the feds have the best drugs and better funding. If they're stupid enough to offer you a wad of money and a train to Finland station, and you don't have to actually do stuff for them, take it and hang them with the rope.
Otherwise the Anarchist Comic Opera plot generation society/soup kitchen sound like it gets the most shit actually done compared to 3 wobblies in a pub; Combat Liberalism, the immersive theatre experience; or the two sex pest newspaper clubs.
The FBI catfished an autistic kid into giving them a small amount of Google Play Gift Cards and then charged him with funding terrorism.
I don't know if it's a great idea to try to play around with feds, they can figure out a way to entrap you in some bullshit.
Oh, yeah, if it's some obviously sus org like that sure. And do not do a fucking adventurism.
But if its got a lot of members you're probably ok since the "feds" are mostly dumbass informants, not feds proper.
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/15/fbi-undercover-isis-teenager-terrorist/
Lenin got back to Russia after the February revolution (which was with the Allies in WW1) via Germany (Which was...not.)
Germany realised that they could fuck with Russia by sending him there to ramp up the political chaos, and so gave him a (not actually) sealed train through Germany to Finland Station in St Petersburg, where he was greeted by massive crowds, turning him from a moderately well know agitator exiled to Switzerland into one of the primary political figures of the age. By doing so Germany, a Capitalist power, gave Lenin resources, and accidentally triggered the most serious threat to capitalism that has ever existed.
Because of this, Leftists, especially older ones, will use the term "Arriving at Finland Station" to refer to a moment when the left (or the org, or the person) comes to a position of real political power.
The sad fact is, many Communist or Socialist revolutions got their funding, or their organisation, from capitalist sources. On the one hand, that's playing with fire. On the other, if it's skillfully done you can hoist them with their own petard.
I'm only familiar with the SWP (USA) personally, which I don't think is a sex cult, but they did try pretty hard to convince a friend of mine who they'd been chatting for like a month up to go to a conference in another state and when she said she had a major surgery right before it they continued to try and coerce her into going, so they are some kind of cult.
I attended a few online meetings of my local trot org and they seemed like weird nerds but mostly harmless, until someone delivered a lecture on why Cuba is imperialist and I stopped paying attention to their emails.
Yeah, that's a real failure mode with student-centric Trot orgs, even otherwise solid ones. It's generally counterproductive but they're reliant on student churn rather than retaining people when they enter the workplace (usually misquoting Lenin about how a factory worker from 1900 working 14 hour days can't be a professional revolutionary.) Be particularly careful of any org that says "We're not a party, we're a (Propaganda org/Cadre training org/UFO-Dolphin friendship society and Nuclear research institute)
I was going to say SWP is a party and isn't specifically targeting students but actually another thing that turned us off was that they wanted to get my younger sibling who was like 3/4 of the way through their degree to drop out of college and go salt at a grocery store or something.
Anyways fuck that org, they also run a newspaper that had several pro-Maidan articles in the mid 2010's.
u know what I mean 
