it seems like it’s sorta working more

The lower classes have always been vaguely supportive of or at least not opposed to terrorism whether it was 19th century anarchists or 20th century guerillas. The problem is that assassination and other forms of terrorism have never moved the masses into action. People might agree that the victim got what they deserved, but they're just voicing the opinion they already had - that health insurance companies are evil - and historically there's no evidence that an assassination will spur them to act on that thought.

And this is what comes out while he has almost a month of his presidency still left

I don't remember what I did specifically but it was based off of the r/bodyweightfitness recommended routine. I think I cut it in two and alternated each part every other day with some slight modifications like adding a few exercises with dumbbells to train my arms better.

I guess it's a little early but I'm gonna be cliche and make a New Year's resolution to start working out again. I had a really good calisthenics routine going for like six months before I met my girlfriend and it was the only thing sort of reigning in my drinking but it's been like a year and a half since I worked out and I'm kinda weak again and I'm starting to drink more so I think i need to start it back up.

I need to do a bunch of other adult stuff next year like figure out my 401k and go to the doctor and I want to read more too but exercising is my big goal.

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That sounds like a good start. When I ran the membership committee in my area we ran some surveys and it was sort of helpful to identify the structural barriers to participation.

Making an effort to just reach out and talk to less involved members on a regular basis can be surprisingly effective too. I wanted to do more of it but nobody really wanted to pursue it with me so it died.

1. Any and all discretionary funds that primarily benefit red states or prominent Republicans immediately stop flowing until a bill is passed. Remind them how a government shutdown feels.

2. An avalanche of wildly progressive executive orders and seat appointments. Doesn't matter that the courts will strike them down or Trump will rescind them - make the Republicans take things away from people

3. Get on camera and try to explain this shit to people

4. Drone strike Elon Musk and say Republican senators are next.

Also they shouldn't have dropped the cases against Trump or pardoned all those white collar criminals until the last minute.

All of this is moot though because the Democrats do not care and Biden least of all.

You gotta love how everyone is just pretending Biden isn't still the president. Trump killed the spending bill - you know the guy who has no legal authority whatsoever right now. It definitely wasn't because the Democrats are a bunch of spineless losers led by a senile old man and the Republicans can basically already get whatever they want with the Dems in charge.

I think there are a lot of people still living sort of middle class lives but it's increasingly predicated on debt and/or not having retirement savings or being able to pass on wealth to their kids. Retirement and inheritance are going to be things of the past for the bottom 70% in the very near future.

My great grandmother lived and worked in lumber camps for her first thirty years and then textile mills for thirty more. She smoked like a chimney and started every morning off with a screwdriver. She lived into her mid 90s. Sometimes I wonder if I should be more like her.

Lol I talked to some RevComs a few months ago. When I tried discussing labor politics with them they had no idea what I was talking about. Then they told me they knew someone who was organizing at the company I worked for. Then they asked me to join the party.

After a month of trying to get in touch with the person organizing, they told me that the effort had stalled out, they were never really involved to begin with, and they were probably going to quit in the near future. Then they asked me to join the party.

I did the math out in here maybe a week after the election and it was pretty clear that even had all third party voters voted for Harris it wouldn't have made a difference both in the popular count or in a number of swing states. Trump's success is because he gained a lot of votes from 2020 and Harris lost a lot. I haven't seen breakdowns of the numbers but I would guess it was mostly abstainers or libertarian voters in 2020 that came over to him this year, not former Biden voters.

When I was in the organization I found that their internal organization was genuinely horrific and it was no surprise that they could barely do anything except glomming onto Democrat campaigns. You should focus on identifying who your members are, where they work, what they want to do, and what skills they have and how you can get them to be active. Train them to be semi-cadre who actually have a degree of discipline, education, and investment in the organization. Then you should work with them to identify and solve the issues they face, especially if they're genuine proletarians.

I hope "organized labor" is happy with this after the last four years of totally debasing themselves by sucking up to Biden and Harris instead of capitalizing on the new interest in labor organizing.

Leftists be shocked when their state appointed and approved "representatives" are actually parasites who love imperialism and the communists have to actually organize the workers.

Good luck to OP though. Don't be afraid to file a ULP against your union or to exercise your LMRDA rights.

His family is quite wealthy, probably more accurately big bourgeoisie though nowhere near the top. The last time he was employed seems to have been over a year ago so he has money somehow.

The petite bourgeoisie isn't exclusively small business owners though. In Marx's time it included small merchants, self employed artisans, peasants that employed others, etc. and much more accurately refered to the middle classes that were not proletarians or big capitalists. Sometimes the intelligentsia is included as well. Today there aren't many artisans or peasants but there are a lot of white collar workers in the imperial core who produce very little and yet are substantially compensated through imperial super profits. These workers are distinctly not proletarian and tend to share many traits to the petite bourgeois of Marx's day including penchants for ultraleftism, spontaneity, lack of discipline, and tendencies towards nationalism and fascism. Mangione was definitely among this strata.

When we had an organizing drive at my job I convinced everyone to bring a large union into the project on account of the advice of this chapter despite my coworkers' hesitancy. They strung us out for a while, really didn't help at all, and then ghosted us and we all gave up. I later found out we were ghosted because the organizing director suddenly quit because he felt he was fucking over working people being there lmao.

I still think we should agitate in the reactionary trade unions if we happen to be there, but I got a lot of experience with them due to my organizing and some other connections I built and I definitely believe the CIO people had it right in the 30s when they went their own way.

It's quite funny to bring up Left Wing Communism in a debate about assassination, a text in which Lenin writes:

this party considered itself particularly “revolutionary”, or “Left”, because of its recognition of individual terrorism, assassination—something that we Marxists emphatically rejected. It was, of course, only on grounds of expediency that we rejected individual terrorism

Here is what Lenin though about terrorism in What is To Be Done?

On the other hand, calls for terror and calls to lend the economic struggle itself a political character are merely two different forms of evading the most pressing duty now resting upon Russian revolutionaries, namely, the organisation of comprehensive political agitation. Svoboda desires to substitute terror for agitation, openly admitting that “as soon as intensified and strenuous agitation is begun among the masses the excitative function of terror will be ended” (The Regeneration of Revolutionism, p. 68). This proves precisely that both the terrorists and the Economists underestimate the revolutionary activity of the masses, despite the striking evidence of the events that took place in the spring,[14] and whereas the one group goes out in search of artificial “excitants”, the other talks about “concrete demands”. But both fail to devote sufficient attention to the development of their own activity in political agitation and in the organisation of political exposures. And no other work can serve as a substitute for this task either at the present time or at any other.

As we can see, Lenin soundly rejects terrorism as a substitute for agitation - and rightfully points out that a reliance on terror underestimates the revolutionary activity of the masses. We see today that the vast majority of people have no love for the CEO of a health insurance company and that those same peopleare seeing that killing a CEO does not make a change.

If anything, when discussing this recent assassination with the masses we should be quite clear that it was not particularly meaningful and that, while it was a product of the exploitation of the lower class by the upper, that it is not a useful form of class struggle and his general political incoherence is a clear symptom of a lack of understanding of the Imperialist system that he sought to strike against.

GOOD Post.

It's been kinda absurd seeing a site with strong ML principles uncritically embracing a petite bourgeois adventurist with fascist leanings and calling for copycats. As funny as the whole event has been, this debate was settled a century ago and in our era of shareholder imperialism assassination is probably an even less effective strategy than it was back then.

Or on the flip side people acting like this act of adventurism is productive. The 2020 revolt is instructive that huge masses of Americans can say they want something and then just not do shit to actually achieve that goal. Why anyone else thinks this is different now with huge masses of Americans laughing at the death of a CEO is beyond me. The new CEO of UHC, who they were able to hire in like two days, has already said that this will not change their operations in the slightest. The American government is already quite clear that this will not change anything. Does anyone really believe that this will spur the American public into revolt? Maybe anarchists I guess. Maybe "Marxists" so desperate for anything good that they've strayed into Narodism. Either way it's basically never worked because it circumvents the hard work of organizing people and fighting as a class and not petite bourgeois individuals.