Join an org, by the way! I’m just fantasizing here about what could have been. Organizing with DSA or PSL or whoever is really important and can help the proletarian cause a lot!
Where’s the genuine dual power organizations, the revolutionary party groups? Why is everyone here focusing on local elections (not that they aren’t important, they are) and sectarian issues? There’s so much cool shit we could be doing as organizations but my local DSA chapter just does electoral stuff and my local PSL and even more left-leaning organizations just seem to sort of be doing absolutely nothing? I could be wrong, I haven’t checked the news or anything, but I feel like every time I see an event for an org it’s always just a social meeting, an electoral-politics related protest or canvassing session, a protest for a serious issue like abortion rights or Palestine but nothing further, or a regular meet.
A lot of this could be due to a lack of resources, but our cause(s) aren’t just milquetoast liberalism, why are there no attempts to secure funding through illegal or unhinged means? Why are there no networks of power being built? Surely we’re more creative than this. Where are the armies of communist prostitutes spending their free time procuring money for their org? Where are the lefty organizations doing insane Ponzi schemes? It feels like everyone in every org is just running their wheels and doing basically nothing. Why? Surely there’s better ways to procure worker power than trying to protest to get specific bills passed? I mean, it isn’t useless by any means, but there has to be more?
they’re dead
if you organize for reals outside the electoral realm and are a threat to the status quo you will be found in a burning car
organized crime is so infiltrated by the security/intelligence state that it might as well be a branch of the CIA. if they smell you they’ll turn you or kill you.
because there is no class-conscious working class in the USA or, arguably, in the entire West. This makes mass movements impossible. furthermore Americans are the most propagandized and brainwashed population in human history. also they’re too tired and beaten down to do anything because why bother
the american empire and its attendant social/economic order are dying slowly and agonizingly and without dignity, and in that wailing diarrhea-squirting death will form voids within and beyond its walls; in these physical and psychic places there will be revolutionary potential. a new spirituality and social order will come and it may be frightening or repellent or incomprehensible to us but it will be the next thing. in the meantime teach your children to find water by smell
Yesterday there was a reddit thread about the MOVE bombing and quite a lot of people were genuinely surprised that (a) it happened in 1985 when the US was supposedly civilized (b) no one got in trouble for perpetrating the act.
Despite everything, we live in a false reality where libs are goodboy golden retrievers.