This is our recruiting station for the front lines (organizing).
I agree with this assessment.
If you look at it as a pipeline, with each step before needed before a person progresses to the next (not true of all but true of most) then it goes:
Growth (initial stage of people switching from lib to socialist). These people are radlibs.
Education (Learning that socialists aren't liberals and that liberals are bad, also that socialism isn't just welfare). These people are dem socs.
Radicalisation (Learning that democracy can never achieve socialism. That only revolution will achieve change.) These people are anarchists and nominally marxist-leninist but without a party.
Willingness to act. (Where people start looking for orgs to join to take part in action)
Means to act. (Where people are now part of orgs and performing action)
This pipeline must be well understood.
I also argue that it is sometimes bad for people to jump into organising before they have reached the radicalisation stage, from the perspective of revolutionaries, because those people aren't revolutionary and they dilute the potential radical energy of any protest. Although in many cases people that do go out and organise will meet revolutionaries and get flipped red in the field instead of online.
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I agree with this assessment.
If you look at it as a pipeline, with each step before needed before a person progresses to the next (not true of all but true of most) then it goes:
This pipeline must be well understood.
I also argue that it is sometimes bad for people to jump into organising before they have reached the radicalisation stage, from the perspective of revolutionaries, because those people aren't revolutionary and they dilute the potential radical energy of any protest. Although in many cases people that do go out and organise will meet revolutionaries and get flipped red in the field instead of online.