Increases of purity testing is a symptom of being ineffectual. It is frustrating being a socialist when things fall apart and there are no real plans of action.
Any action you take in organization is a positive. I ask any of my “no kings” friends to go out and find a protest or day to contribute to a DSA or PSL event (among others but those are the ones nationwide) before the next “no kings” day. If 10% the “no kings day liberals” went out and did something between now and then we’d have a massive increase in support each day. And that is a win for me. Don’t try to change the world. Change your neighborhood and find solidarity and purpose in getting others to do the same.
You don’t have to feel powerful to not feel powerless. Anyone that feels powerless hasn’t been organizing.
History is not made by the actions of “great men”. It is made by those that plant seeds for trees that they will never enjoy the shade of. Do what you are capable of doing in your community and your local organizations. Do not be disheartened by the decades in which “nothing happens” because the “weeks in which decades happen” are built upon those times.
I swear. If all the leftist online stopped sitting at home being “informed” of the world politics and just got to the weekend thinking “Damn, i need to listen to <favorite political commentator>, i was so busy organizing with <local org> that I didn’t have time”. We’d all be in a better place. And the political commentator might even start mentioning your community.
I feel like purity testing has been less of a problem lately, due to the urgency of… pretty much everything.
Yeah my purity test is whether youre actually helping.
Election? Committee meeting? Sending commissars to foodnotbombs? Unhelpful.
Increases of purity testing is a symptom of being ineffectual. It is frustrating being a socialist when things fall apart and there are no real plans of action.
What do people do when they feel powerless?
Any action you take in organization is a positive. I ask any of my “no kings” friends to go out and find a protest or day to contribute to a DSA or PSL event (among others but those are the ones nationwide) before the next “no kings” day. If 10% the “no kings day liberals” went out and did something between now and then we’d have a massive increase in support each day. And that is a win for me. Don’t try to change the world. Change your neighborhood and find solidarity and purpose in getting others to do the same.
You don’t have to feel powerful to not feel powerless. Anyone that feels powerless hasn’t been organizing.
History is not made by the actions of “great men”. It is made by those that plant seeds for trees that they will never enjoy the shade of. Do what you are capable of doing in your community and your local organizations. Do not be disheartened by the decades in which “nothing happens” because the “weeks in which decades happen” are built upon those times.
I swear. If all the leftist online stopped sitting at home being “informed” of the world politics and just got to the weekend thinking “Damn, i need to listen to <favorite political commentator>, i was so busy organizing with <local org> that I didn’t have time”. We’d all be in a better place. And the political commentator might even start mentioning your community.
I like to go outside and fix stuff, or lay in bed analyzing what ive seen, but I dont need anyone’s permission.