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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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[–] onoira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

is this all there is? /rh

in Europe all i ever seem to meet are:

  • 'communists': chauvinistic pensioners, or uni trots selling newspapers
  • 'syndicalists': workaholic labour aristocrats and manscapers
  • 'anarchists': teenage punkers

i'm either too old or too young to hang with any of these groups, and every year i get badjacketed because i wear a mask or have a 'funny' accent. i spent most of today having my fashion sense and diction mocked by 80 year old crackkkers. [nb my keyboard is broken and typed the three k's itself. i've unlocked Maoist English autocorrect on my pc.]

all the local orgs are either clandestine anarcho-nihilists, or radlibs adopting revolutionary language but whose praxis begins and ends at petitions and performative protests.