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How do you think the Left should organize in the United States right now?: A thread (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please discuss! No uncritical sectarianism, bad faith arguments, etc.

Important questions:

Is the strategy most socialist organizations in the US are using, in your opinion, a good one? What else should they do?
As individual socialist, what do you think we should be doing? What groups are worth joining?
What should be done about the sudden rise of socially reactionary beliefs and laws across the country?

Reading posted by users:
Where’s the Winter Palace?, posted by @[email protected], written by unknown author, I checked and could not find one on the article.

Conclusion from this text, that I think summarizes it’s premise quite well:

We believe that, in the U.S. in 2018, the truly important theoretical tasks have not been solved. We are in a period of a nascent socialist movement since the 2008 financial crisis. We should not be afraid of new ideas, and should look forward instead of harping on the 20th century. Without bending to reformism or adventurism, we must feel free to put everything back on the table and come to build strategy and theory through struggle.

(Emphasis mine)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think regarding privacy it can feel insurmountable and so people give up. At least that's pretty much how I feel. I do a few things but it seems like it takes a lot of time and sometimes money to keep up with it and use the proper applications. And as someone who is not super into tech it is very difficult to filter through the noise and figure out what concrete steps to take.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We need to make a collective approach to privacy, instead of an individualist one. Current attempts at obtaining privacy focus on individual means of separation from exploitative software, but this is doomed to failure. We need to instead focus on organizing to fight these kinds of software and practices directly.