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Underwhelmed by protests (lemmy.ml)
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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?

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[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Find someone selling a newspaper and chat with them

Tried this and now I just have invites to 20 Trot groups with on average 5 members (all of whom are over 45).

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Left unity in action