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Should you give money to people begging on the streets?
  • of course, but the more essential thing is to get involved with local orgs that support homeless people. go volunteer at a soup kitchen, or help some anarchists hand out support packages, or donate to a shelter - etc.

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    sorry anarchists but as a true radical centrist im a lil bit of all this 💅
  • peace deal, we're allowed to make fun of the weirdo "abolish time" anarchists and they're allowed to make fun of the weirdo "i pledge allegience to chairman gonzalo" communists, and we will build anticapitalist unity on this basis. as a show of good faith we won't make any more jabs about Makhno and they won't make any more about the Bolsheviks

  • you actually have to "go outside" and "build some communism" to learn how to be a communist. not all knowledge comes from books and articles, and you can learn a lot from IRL organising

    seriously. it's not that big a deal. if people in gaza are still standing up to their oppressors every day then you likely have zero excuse for not doing more IRL shit (political reading and writing at home are good, but don't mean anything if you're not applying that theory as practice and then assessing the results and adjusting your practice accordingly).

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    Hexbearites: The notion of solving systemic problems through individuals' actions is liberalism. Also hexbearites: *you* [an individual] should go outside and build some communism
  • you don't have to join a Party. you can just be a communist getting involved with local shit that helps people and challenges capital. the Party will come later, once we are numerous and organised enough to actually make a Party which can lead the working classes and not just sell newspapers to striking workers

  • Hexbearites: The notion of solving systemic problems through individuals' actions is liberalism. Also hexbearites: *you* [an individual] should go outside and build some communism
  • it is almost like a dialectically materialist understanding of history would indicate your own place in it and make it possible for you to act accordingly, breaking free of liberal nihilism and "introversion"

    of course if you still labour under a liberal worldview then that would just seem like people telling you to "go outside" and "build some communism"

  • A Gaza war cartoon by a lib that's excellent.
  • that's not rlly much help for the many jews around the world who both despise the state of "israel" and also are victims of antisemitism

    it's not hard to distinguish "israel" from judaism and jews, so you should.

  • What’s stopping you from organizing and/or developing a community in your local area?
  • Organise to do what?

    Try to form connections with the exploited and oppressed people in your locality via whatever means you can. Listen attentively to them and their problems whenever you get the opportunity, understand them and use the theory you know to analyse what you have heard and seen. Take the results of that analysis and try to apply them; even if it's just trying to agitate more effectively, keep thinking about how to adapt your line and practice to the circumstances you find yourself in. Always be on the lookout for other communists/anyone else who seems like they would be down to help organise the working class. If you find anyone like that, talk to them and work with them. Some of the folks in your local party branch may feel the same as you about the tactics being ineffective and would welcome some fresh ideas about how to organise.

    Basically, do what a communist does. It takes practice and if you're new to it, it's gonna feel a little stilted at first, but this is how communists organise and lead.

  • What’s stopping you from organizing and/or developing a community in your local area?
  • Good luck, you can do it! There's nothing wrong with being a stubborn, disagreeable motherfucker if you're doing it on behalf of the poor and oppressed and you're driven by a love for the people. I was very shy and conflict-averse when I started organising but the more I've done and seen, and the more I've become aware of how terribly my friends and neighbours are treated by capitalism, the less I've had time for compromise and being "reasonable" with the exploiting class and their lackeys.

  • Redditors struggle to convince an Arab to vote for Genocide Joe, give up and delete the post
  • We (the minority of non-fascists in the imperial core) can throw ourselves into the cogs of the machine to try and stop it from murdering more. That's all. Hope that our friends in the imperial periphery can continue to force the empire back from their shores while we do our best to damage and confuse it internally.

  • "Commies when they actually read a book about Cuban history."
  • well they could have chosen to go work on the other plantation over there for the same wage, see, so they have free choice in their employment 😍 that means anything bad that happens to them is just their fault personally for not being entrepenurial enough 😌

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