2/2 GET TO THE FUCKING POINT ALREADY
An org requires alot of social labour to maintain and grow itself before the feedback loops (clout) start kicking in at whatever critical mass is supposed to fucking be and that's the biggest fucking challenge in there comrades.
There needs to be an outlet for people to provide their input for the org. People really do need to feel like they're a part of something. After being a family, an org should feel like being in a second society.
Some would be stoked to peel potatoes, be able to learn and conduct standard food safety measures, as much as there are hotheads who would want to dumpster dive for the food that the org would sort for internal or external. distribution. There's going to be someone who would like to learn first aid, if to be a street medic as much as wanting to feel a little bit more in control in their life should they find themselves in a medical emergency.
Not entirely applicable in my country, but I'd imagine that most would be getting down with learning gun safety and becoming a genuine crackshot.
And I'm sure someone wouldn't object to learning a little civil law and jurisprudence, if to serve in mediation as only being in a group of tight-knit group of humans entails, also to be able to apply their org experience in their wider social life and when the above hand-picked examples work its great, because its at that point the two worlds start to blur and one can't separate their life as a wage slave from being an empowered conscious commie prole and its also the point at which someone sees the cause as their life and family so much that they would literally lay their life down for it.
My own org falls short in so many places in its infant steps. Our social media page is squeaky, yellow and remarkably trotskyist. Yes officer, this organisation does nothing that would considered illegal or directly offensive to the state or its owners.
The left in my country and its various single issue movements are quite atomised, or even worse have been neoliberalised and Inducted into Charity Inc. We are small, but even then there are so many ways in which members talents could be utilised that just isn't which also causes new members to kind of flake out when they see that they'd have nothing going on apart from coming to weekly meetings. The two things are directly correlated. If no one is really reaching out to co-ordinate, it's no fucking surprise that activism, direct action and single issue orgs have little militancy, there is literally fucking no one to back them up or even witness and advocate them if the state decides to Bring down the hammer. hard. Of course people would be afraid to rock the boat.
it needs to feel and very much to operate like a second family, Its a fucking social organisation ffs. Your time and attention is already encroached upon enough in the cycles of commodity production, yes your academic success or failure is still treated as a commodity without feeling like "the cause" is draining you. Bottom line. It fucking shouldn't.
That's the level of commitment that is needed in the "vanguard". Because a vanguard isn't a "vanguard". It's the most developed part of a "grass roots" movement that has skilled and dedicated revolutionaries that have networks of other leftists if not in tow, at least in awe of what's been created. Honestly I've barely even been able to touch on what the fuck is supposed to happen should you have to coordinate across regions with other chapters/cells or even figure out what the hell it's supposed to look like when it is a mass movement.
But dear anons, I hope this helps. If anything I hope you can learn from our situations and failures and avoid some of the pitfalls we're trying to dig ourselves out of and get the good work done. People want security, not safety. They'll want the operational guarantee that they aren't going to be sidelined, left out or put their energy into some grey, dead ARG of a dead horse for the society they're creating and they want you to prove that. Happy revolution fellas.
