I just went down to our local lib demonstration. All I could really feel was depressed. All those people waving signs but I wonder how many are willing to do anything more than that? Shit most of them were pretty old, tbh. I approached some people I clocked as comrades but I was very awkward and we didn’t have a conversation.

I guess I don’t really have a question here. Just feel like everybody has identified (some of) the problems, but have totally misidentified the solutions. Will these protests ever accomplish anything? Can we radicalize the protestors without them having to get beaten by cops? Or is that what it will take?

  • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yeah I got this way during the last wave of BLM protests. You’d have a couple cool demos at the beginning, but it’d eventually fizzle out into Harry Potter meme signs. People say it’s an opportunity to radicalize people but I don’t think I’m charismatic or confident enough for that. I ended up feeling pretty isolated at most of them. I’d probably feel different if I went to events as part of an Org but I don’t got one of those right now.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Find someone selling a newspaper and chat with them, that’s what the newspaper is for. They’re probably in a deeply unpleasant org but one thing you learn as a communist is to have a lot of friends in wildly different orgs, it makes large scale action way easier if you can stop dunking on each other over the theory of value or the correct praaxis against Austria Hungary at protests.