keep talking to friends. I remember getting in a huge argument a couple years ago with someone at a party about the police, myself arguing that the police should be abolished. My friends at the time thought it was just my tendency towards extremism, but when the protests set off this year a lot of those same friends came to me in their confusion.
Be the only one who is able to explain what is happening to your confused and apolitical friends. These past couple months I got in argument after argument with liberal friends about the election. Election Day came and I’m the only one who accurately predicted what would happen. My friends who were more apathetic and confused than liberal have seen this, they move further and further left. It’s a slow process and material conditions and political events are better for radicalization than talk, but talk can give them the ability to move left when those events occur or they face those material conditions.
It's happened on Chapo too. I started out my journey to the left with more idealistic tendencies (ancom and such), and I thought the "tankie commies" were just trying to be edgy (though I do still think this about some people). Over time though, the Marxists had a tendency to be right all the time, so eventually I had to see what's up.
keep talking to friends. I remember getting in a huge argument a couple years ago with someone at a party about the police, myself arguing that the police should be abolished. My friends at the time thought it was just my tendency towards extremism, but when the protests set off this year a lot of those same friends came to me in their confusion. Be the only one who is able to explain what is happening to your confused and apolitical friends. These past couple months I got in argument after argument with liberal friends about the election. Election Day came and I’m the only one who accurately predicted what would happen. My friends who were more apathetic and confused than liberal have seen this, they move further and further left. It’s a slow process and material conditions and political events are better for radicalization than talk, but talk can give them the ability to move left when those events occur or they face those material conditions.
It's happened on Chapo too. I started out my journey to the left with more idealistic tendencies (ancom and such), and I thought the "tankie commies" were just trying to be edgy (though I do still think this about some people). Over time though, the Marxists had a tendency to be right all the time, so eventually I had to see what's up.