SpookyBogMonster

joined 2 years ago
[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Dare I suggest that the reason for twitter becoming so right wing, is that it's a centralized social media website, subject to the crazed far right whims of the capitalist who bought it...

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha! So, I started a lefty book club with a couple friends, when I was in university. So in that sense, things were easier. But if you're starting with just yourself, you're gonna have to kinda start with boring stuff.

Come up with a name for your book club. Advertise it around campus. Make posters! If you see someone with a leftist sticker on their laptop or something, strike up a conversation!

Get at least 2 or 3 other people on board first. Then, if you're not a big theory-head, see who is. Or at the very least, see who's good at talking to people. Let that person start facilitating discussion. Have a few informal meetings, and see how they go!

You'll start to learn how things will work, the more you do it. This stuff takes practice, and you'll gain a lot of skills doing it, but don't assume it'll all go smoothly the first, or even the 5th or 10th time.

On that same point though, relax and have fun! Everyone is there to learn and talk about stuff.

If you're lucky, you night also develop opportunities to collaborate with other student groups, or community orgs, and do some activism as well. I know with the group I helped start, it grew over time to a full fledged campus activist org that held film screenings, talks, protests, mutual aid, and more. And that's because we kept making ourselves known on campus, and in the wider community, and put in the work to make that happen.

But, also don't feel like you HAVE to grow it that way, if you don't want to. You're free to just let it be a small reading group between you and some friends!

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are you starting this from scratch, by yourself? Or do you have some friends who are helping you start this thing, as well?

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (10 children)

What are you having trouble understanding? The theory material itself? What to pick? How to facilitate discussion?

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Shout out to Leslie Feinberg. Everyone go read Transgender Warriors.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

There are plenty of early leninists who were deeply intersectional. Alexandra Kollontai jumps to mind immediately.

But yeah, there's definitely a vulgar strain here that nutomic is clinging to.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

Jesse....What the fuck are you talking about?

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nothing in @Doorbook@lemmy.world's comment implied that.

Also...Why do you think so many American cities in the south west have spanish names?

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

tbh, their funtion isn't all that objectionable. Mixed use buildings are cool and good, actually. But the fact that they're made of cardboard and duct tape, look like ass, and are signifiers of gentrification are what suck about them.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it's that complicated

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

"The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation."

  • Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

This is pretty straightforwardly an accelerationist tactic. It might not have been called that at the time, but strategically pushing crises over the tipping point, in order to take advantage of their fallout, wasn't invented by the boogaloo boys in 2017.

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