The closer you are to the margins, the more you attract people who are drawn to what they perceive as "radical" for pathological reasons. From genuine mental illness, to people going through childish rebellious phases, to people who are eager to have a community and identity due to social detachment. This is true to student organizations, political parties, and communities like Zig Forums.
The solution to that? I have no idea.
based Trotskyist
This has always been a problem. Orwell has this quote:
The solution is to genuinely give these people some purpose in life. Turn them into honest people through a distinctly leftist sort of discipline. That means self-discipline, discipline that comes from personal conviction rather than outside force. Finding a universal formula for this is difficult, but we should pursue the ideal relentlessly, even if this at times makes us look naive.
We need good leadership, or rather, people who dare to be good leaders, something too many people shy away from (myself as well). And a good leader is not someone who commands others what to do, it is someone who reminds people that they have a responsibility to themselves to pursue their ideals, who helps them organize to this effect, and stands at their side to guide and support them.
IMO people are just so alienated that they have trouble conceptualizing what real action looks like.
Even some basic shit like producing stuff as a hobby and sharing it with the group under commie principles is alien to them.
I really don't want to offend you, but your worldview would not survive a single week of the dramas, call-outs and victimism that is characteristic of left-wing groups. Read about those dramas and struggle sessions in the Democrat Cops of America - which is, as left-wing organization go, incredibly normie and easygoing - and tell me how you'd give these people who start witch hunts over nonsense a higher purpose in life.
They don't want a purpose. They don't want self-discipline. They don't want to fix themselves. They definitely don't want anybody telling them to do that. They want to wreck and to attack others, because with all the baggage and personal troubles that they have, it feels cathartic to them. In some cases, it feels like an opportunity to be "rebellious", if that's their goal, because what's bigger evidence that you're an uncompromising radical than being too radical for a left-wing organization? And they can do so without the risks, because being a radical in the real world can get you a police record and career troubles. Wrecking a socialist group? Nobody cares. So you're attracting this great combination of empty radicalism and cowardice, that will just sit and wait for an opportunity to spread their shit on the rest of us.
Thinking you're going to shape and mold people who join left-wing organizations as an outlet for their own personal and emotional turmoil is something you can only believe in if you never interacted with them. Performing counter-productive, self-destructive antics *is* their purpose. Don't nothing and LARPing *is* their purpose. They don't you or me telling them otherwise.
I'm going to be honest, I have no fucking idea what modern first-world praxis is supposed to be. Like you would think unionization would be important, but I'm in one of the largest unions in North America and the experience is totally underwhelming, absolutely zero revolutionary potential, and the union is practically toothless even when up against our employers.
every revolution ever has involved students you dumbass.
Yeah I'm not saying they should be absent, just that they should be in the background and far away from any and all leadership positions.
Employers have the advantage of global free movement of capital. They can just outsource most things these days (not a permanent solution but a huge blow to negotiation powers of workers). That means the answer has to be going around the capitalist and building up mutual aid networks or solidarity economy. Big revolutionary direct action would be shit like squatting defunct factories and getting them running again, putting the stuff produced into the local economy/community. Putting porky in a position where they can try suppression at the cost of making people hate capitalism more is excellent - it draws attention directly to the problem of private property.
Also, put up posters like this one.
That Facebook post has to be a joke.