All tagged pitfalls in organizing
“If only everyone else held the same views as me! Then we’d have a world without exploitation that meets all of our needs! This means that if we simply make our arguments more forcefully, more convincingly, more sympathetically—then we will have a mass movement of the working class!” — Idealists
How do we effectively engage in “praxis”? What are organizing practices for our theory to effectively inform our action, or for reflections on our actions to inform our theory?
Discussing different causes of socialist elected self-moderation, and to what point it can ever be strategically justified
Las Vegas DSA recently put out a good retrospective on their 2021 capture of the Nevada Democratic Party’s leadership positions. Unfortunately, a disappointing outcome, but good socialist analysis.
The only way to guarantee working class dignity is through working class power.
Might be good to be aware of this when beginning mass line style organizing.
I worry that many people on the left are too quick to leave democratic styles of organizing because they think it hasn’t been politically effective enough. Even if their experiences with ‘democratic’ organizations have been disappointing, I think we ought to be more rigorous and intentional about democracy before we compromise on it.
Common problems that can sink an organizing group: staying non-hierarchical for too long, and having too inflexible of a structure in response to changing circumstances.