I’m looking for specific suggestions of what I can do to find a group that I can join for the purpose of building a real revolution inside the USA. I’m trying and finding it very difficult. The closest was PSL but honestly my local branch seems kind of limp. That and I’m not academically inclined enough to get through Capital.
You’re unwilling to engage with a foundational communist text that has infinity translations into every language in common parlance, readily available audiobooks, prerecorded reading groups in every format imaginable and actual real time reading groups on the instance you’re posting this thread in.
What resource can I possibly offer you when you describe yourself as unwilling to avail yourself of those around you?
I get it, reading a bunch of old stuff sucks but you’re talking about getting into groups that are trying their god damnedest to not hand the gospel down to you from a pulpit but to help you learn it for yourself. At some point if you wanna be a deacon you gotta crack the good book, right?
You’re making me reiterate the first point from my previous comment. Why would you assume I know about all those resources? You could’ve just said, “I think Capital is a very important read, especially for explicitly Communist groups. Here’s some resources that could help you get through it.” And then it wouldn’t have turned into an argument. The way you currently talk about this stuff is damaging to your movement. You’re making a lot of bad faith assumptions about who I am and what I think, and using those assumptions to tell me to fuck off. That was my main contention in the first place, you’re never going to build anything useful if you can’t meaningfully engage with stupid people. What you’re doing now is anti-organizing.
If you wanted to buy a chiefs knife what would you do?
Ideally, I’d talk to a chef I respect for recommendations of what makes a good knife or good sources to get one.
Okay, so now you can’t say I’m making an assumption that you didn’t even try because you just told me directly you would seek out guidance and information if you wanted to do something.
Apologies for the leading question but from the way the conversation was going it sounded like you were gonna try and claim I shouldn’t expect you to do any web searches or anything when you seem perfectly capable so I felt the need to get it all in writing. Because I’m not engaging with you in bad faith, as you claimed, I’m engaging with you on and in your terms.
It’s, again - in clear opposition to your accusation that I’m “anti-organizing”, fine if you don’t want to do the homework. As I have stated many times before, you can find an anarchist or electoralist group that will put you to work. That is fine.
Just because I seek out real world guidance or do web searches doesn’t mean I successfully find the information that will actually help me. Especially given our current material conditions with regards to everyone’s struggle to maintain a decent standard of living and the continual enshittification of the internet including the search engines. So I tried seeking out guidance here and the main thing you had to say about that was “Stop.” And then told me to go organize with someone else.
What are you doing to help your movement grow?
If you wanted to do the homework you wouldn’t be arguing with me about it, you would be actively seeking out ways to understand instead.
You dont, and that’s okay. Anarchist and electoralist groups will take your willingness to act gladly.
Wrong, and you’re still not hearing what I’m saying. I never actually expressed an unwillingness to read Capital. I’ve tried and failed multiple times. I may try again with some of the ideas that you brought up here actually, even though you brought them up as an attack on me rather than trying to be helpful (at least that’s how it appeared). What I’m saying, and what I meant when I said “anti-organizing”, is that the way you’ve handled this conversation will only make your movement more insular and out of touch.
The third time you’re making me ask a version of this question. What are you doing to make your movement into something the masses will actually agree to follow?
I do not want to talk with you about anything I do in my life or about theory or about history.
I want you to go away from communist movements and instead focus your energy into anarchist or electoralist groups who will have a lower barrier to entry and give you something to do.
You are behaving like an adventurist, wrecker or infiltrator. This is not an accusation, simply a statement intended to express my perception of your behavior.
I don’t think you’re an infiltrator or wrecker, I think you don’t realize how you sound when you start a thread on a public Marxist Leninist platform and ask “what do I do to build a real revolution in America”.