The left in the US and Europe is just a very small portion of politically advanced (arguably) workers and petit bourgeoise - even if we were to all agree on a course of action and a concise set of political values, it would not accomplish anything other than to feed our own egos.

If we want the power to implement our preferred program, we need to be organizing our fellow workers, not arguing online. We need to have real answers to their questions, and have a real platform, so that they would join us.

Honestly, everything else is just lifestyleism. Of course many of us know this but we choose not to organize anyway, either because we feel too impotent or we are afraid of sticking our necks out.

  • ImperativeMandates [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Defeatism is punishable with death under Stalinism.

    Real though, don't knock a 10k sized board. Cultural hegemony isn't won in a day.

    Sure all of us should organize and such, but rather let's do it with 'yes, and...' so that we stay alive

    • PartyMonster [they/them,any]
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      4 years ago

      screaming “THIS SITE IS FUTILE” as I bust thick ropes into my Noam Chomsky waifu body pillow

    • Jorick [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The thing that makes me hopeful for chapo.chat is the activity though. It ranges anywhere from 500 to 1k now, which is especially huge for a community of 10k, some subs on reddit have the same activity as we do with 10 times the subscriber counts.