I'm just inquiring as to how 'feds' are caught. The mistakes they make that get them caught.
Also, i enjoy scrolling hexbear in my free time. And i've read Capital volumes 1 through 4 and the communist party manifesto, so don't worry, i ain't no fed gang.
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So much this! Socialism needs to be organically created, it needs to be a mass movement once material conditions are right. And material conditions are nowhere near right in most of the imperial core and "civilized" inner periphery.
Some have called me paranoid because of this belief. But they don't have half their immediate and extended family working as cops of one sort of another. There's no way I can simply lay low after a hypothetical adventure. I would be found real quick.
And due to the above, please don't invite me into any orgs, online or IRL. The less I know about yours, the safer you folks are. I'm just here to chat about events and news and gossip that's already very public. IRL the most I do is reading groups, and I always tell anyone there up front about my family. I hate that it makes me look like yet another all-talk-no-substance fair-weather Marxist but it's the only way I know to keep everyone involved safe.
I've already had a few relatives try to gently and friendly-like ask me about my politics once they find out I'm not a chud. Innocently asking about what forums I'm on with phrases like "I'm pretty liberal myself, I just want to help people." I just dodge that sort of thing with variations of "I just follow the news, I'm not really the activist type." I neve go to any family event unless I am stone cold sober and I can stay sober. I need to keep my guard up even among family that cares for me. It's such a fucked up situation.
Nah, you're making a decision that's in the best interests of the movement despite the personal costs of doing so. That's very different because you are making a difficult compromise to do what's right for organisations whereas fair-weather Marxists do what makes them feel good regardless of the consequences. In fact, in my opinion that's effectively the direct opposite.
I can sympathise with your frustrations though. My health is pretty trash. I'm not capable of doing much organising besides helping out with the local FNB-adjacent org here and there while providing some input to assist the back-of-house stuff like procedures and all that. I'd like to do a lot more. I'd like to be on the frontlines. But my circumstances do not allow it, so I contribute locally and to more international stuff like this site because that's what I am capable of, so that's what I try my best to do.
There's a place for everyone, even you. It sucks that the place that best suits you might not be the place that you most desire to be in. But contributing to reading groups and participating in the discussions is still very important - you have no way of knowing what you might inspire in someone else, someone who might go on to become leader of the vanguard in your region one day. You can still be a role-model and you can still have valuable input, it's just a pity that you probably won't get that direct feedback where you get to see your actions reap results directly. You know, Allende was instructed in Marxism by an old Italian anarchist bootmaker (anarchist comrades, I kid you not - on the matter of boots, Allende deferred to the expertise of the bootmaker [!!]) Allende would then go on to lead the only successful parliamentary revolution directly because of this anarchist bootmaker's guidance and, despite the coup, there is so much to learn from Chile under Allende. Even if it all went to shit afterwards. He dared to struggle. He didn't win but he gave it his best shot. Could this bootmaker have ever known how close Allende would get to succeeding? Could he have ever known what achievements he would inspire by his conversations with Allende?
So I guess what I'm saying here is that you have a similar sort of opportunity here. Treat every comrade you encounter as being the next Allende because you never know exactly what will grow from the seeds that you plant.