(biased source but basically the only people reporting on it)

remember when all of the original BLM activists from 2016 were literally all assassinated and disappeared post-ferguson and freddie gray

then the focus of the organization shifted away from black community issues and policiing to typical lib socjus talking points a few years later

then last year it came out that BLM had somehow become a conglomerate organization instead of decentralized chapters and somehow no one was actually in charge of it and the directors had ghosted it

now would you look at that next step all those corporate and democrat establishment creeps stealing the limelight of the 2020 protests makes a lot more sense now

activist organizations in the west, not even once

Do any of you guys have experience organizing a study group?

I temporarily moved away from the city I was in that had a large organizing scene and right now theres basically no communist organizing at my college other than the DSA which I had a terrible experience with.

I decided that with no organizing here, the best way to start would be a study group with the goal of eventually turning it into an actual org. So I've put out some flyers up and I've gotten a good number of people interested. However, I'm unsure how it should be organized.

Should it focus on reading bite size pieces of theory and news articles then discussing them or should the focus be on reading entire books a few chapters at a time?

I would suggest shorter excerpts

Mandel:
An introduction to marxist economics

Marx:
Wages Prices and Profit
Communist Manifesto
Critique of the Gotha Programm
Civil War in France

Mao:
A***ysis of the classes in Chinese Society
On Contradiction
On practice
Combat liberalism

Lenin:
Selected chapters of State and Revolution, Imperialism, Left-Communism

These should be a good start and keep you busy a few weeks

Thanks going to do my best to create more gonzaloites to piss people off on twitter by calling their favorite country revisionist or attacking DSA members

Then you should poach kids from discord since that seems to be the red guard demographic

People are actually agreeing with that NYC mayor drill music s*** lol

You forgot:

Richard Wolfe: Why we should support the anti-vax truckers because theyre workers, right guys?

sometimes its the only organizing that gets going in some cities

way i see it people gotta make due with what they have until they can build something better

but nah they gotta work on local issues and the community and stuff not take heed from corporate liberal talking points

some organizers do, trust me, not all BLM organizers are on this type of lib s***

Your brain on idealism

best socialist/informative readings on fascism / how it pertains to the present?

my essay on fascism in this thread 200 pages ago

mhm. check this long thread out:

also reminded me of: descentrealizer.medium.com/how-black-visions-collective-reclaim-the-block-support-slaver-colonialism-79b44ef72841

ktt2.com/socialism-thread-702/305

@spongebob @krishna_bound

will read soon

just feel like i have a basic gist but want to be able to hold a valid convo about it and be able to compare the origin with its remnants and evolution today

The opening chapters on fascism in blackshirts and reds fasho

fuccck u right

more people need to talk about the original BLM/Ferguson community leader protestor assassinations. I have legitimately never seen it talked about anywhere.

What’s the move

the move is solidarity and to organize

It's all revolution? Always has been

so far, my thoughts on @krishna_bound post, and mind you, i am a novice just overall when it comes to the wide world of ideology imo (thats at least how i feel)

It's interesting that I'm artistically and philosophically fascinated with many of the concepts that inform fascism: absurdism, nihilism, and the mention of Dadaism... (part of me was like: "Damn I enjoy thinking about these and feel disconnected... wait am I a fasc- nahhh" ) lmao.

Then I had a question: "Is fascism just an aimless rejection of the current order of things, creating intentional confusion when used politically, so people grasp the disapproval of society at large but aren't able to follow what's being done with the support until its too late? (this sounds absolutely incoherent, seemingly like fascism) (basically, is it used as a confusion tactic, somewhat like a populism)

then the preservation of life as we know it is more important than anything

^ so is this one of the potential links to conservatism? (as we see the US embracing more and more nonsensical s*** on the further right wing, and then absolute inaction by way of centrism by the democrats,
because change leads to disruptions in the status quo

this s*** is heady as f***

i feel like any attempt to reiterate what I read will be just as nonsensical and scattered

It's time to read Blackshirts and Reds soon.