Zig Forums I have to ask, why are there so many Micropatries, of many tendencies, present all over the overall Radical Left. Aside from ideological sectarianism, what hinders a large org from being born? I know one issue is the lack of capital, but how did Communist Organizers in the past get capital they needed to organize?
Many myriad of tactics I heard people do to get funding involve: making left-liberal front groups to get donations, infiltrating other orgs to steal members and money, etc. The works of Lenin best apply in a situation of untold suffering for the people as the economy collapses and the masses desire bread, right now is not that time.
For that first question, because socialists are really that fucking filled with that "my type of socialism is perfect" horseshit. I mean for ffs, if there's a really fucking necessary time to not be sectarian it's right fucking now. For the second question, I think the only big issue that hinders a big org from being born is just that, sectarianism. Obviously it'd be harder to organize a bigger org than a smaller one but besides all that technical shit, sectarianism is really the main factor.
Juan Rivera
The answer starts with C and ends in IA.
Brayden Davis
This.
This is literally idealism. Everyone, I would avoid this thinking for your health. Ask yourself, "Am I supposing people do something for an outside reason or am I supposing they do it because of some inner flaw?". If it is the latter, you are almost certainly wrong.
Communism has been obliterated by gigantic government action. I think the sectarianism we see is the reaction of an ideology attempting to piece itself back together for a new world. And, I want to point out, differentiating between ideologies/actions and then rejecting some isn't bad. A lack of that killed the USSR via corrupt, stupid, and/or bourgeois fucks. Being a socialist is 1000% meaningless outside of action, and we should all be twice as critical of someone claiming to be on our side than we should be of any enemy.
Lincoln Robinson
How the fuck is that idealism?
Evan Taylor
Personals problems, especially when it happens among the leaders.
Adam Fisher
Because the left has yet to leave the 20th century. We're stuck bickering over a long dead country or some other failed project when it's time to look forward. Take what worked and move on already.
When I was an ML and in a party they still distributed newspapers in 2018 for fucks sake.
Jack Scott
you can sell newspapers and it's relatively easy to have one what else do you want them to do? youtube videos? some do that, it's just not a big thing people would take notice of and a paper still has its own advantages for example reading it can peak interest by others, you can easily share it and talk about it even leave it at some place where someone bored might pick it up and look into
Jack Smith
You can simply give out a little paper with a link to your website or something. Very few people even read the news nowadays, let alone fucking newspapers.
