You also have to remember that the struggle is very much a marathon, not a sprint. If it’s possible to mobilize sufficient people to anti-war rallies every week that would be great. But if it’s just a half dozen people shouting into the void every Sunday that is not going to change much. We also have to think about how to avoid that people who are enthusiastic about doing something now become burned out and demoralized later, when they put in so much work and see no tangible result.
The solution is for us as communists to recognize that this will be a protracted struggle and one that we will not win overnight. So we have to actually organize and get involved with a party, and then get our party involved with unions, with student groups, mutual aid volunteer groups, etc. And in the process of doing that reaching out across the political spectrum to anyone who is anti-war to organize rallies that actually have an impact.
We also have to educate people and agitate against what is currently happening by pointing out how none of the politics being forced on us by the ruling elite in this country is in the interest of working people, and how the bourgeois liberal parties are not on their side. And most importantly we have to stay on message and avoid being dragged into weird academic theoretical debates that the vast majority of workers don’t care about and doesn’t affect their day to day lives.
currently, I’m feeling the strain very much. I run some efforts mostly on my own, supporting both the local community and giving comrades a regular place to meet. it is at times hard to keep going as i dont have the capacity to be my own ideological guide and the man on the ground.
what would help is if i could pull back on theory or praxis and not be the most progressive force in both as I understand that this is not a pace I can hold forever, especially against opposition from outside and at times inside.
I think this is a very new problem in germany as at least in my local groups the communist movement was completely stamped out and I was pretty much the first to get back into it and have pulled in people behind me. At this point I’m more or less thinking aloud: I think it is important for those who are deep into theory by now and have practical experience on the streets to get connected before the german gestapo can react. again, not being tailist, so to speak.
I’ll probably update on this both in my podcast radio-free-germany and on my blog. the podcast should be available here if you search for it and my blog is https://blog.giftedmc.com/.
You also have to remember that the struggle is very much a marathon, not a sprint. If it’s possible to mobilize sufficient people to anti-war rallies every week that would be great. But if it’s just a half dozen people shouting into the void every Sunday that is not going to change much. We also have to think about how to avoid that people who are enthusiastic about doing something now become burned out and demoralized later, when they put in so much work and see no tangible result.
The solution is for us as communists to recognize that this will be a protracted struggle and one that we will not win overnight. So we have to actually organize and get involved with a party, and then get our party involved with unions, with student groups, mutual aid volunteer groups, etc. And in the process of doing that reaching out across the political spectrum to anyone who is anti-war to organize rallies that actually have an impact.
We also have to educate people and agitate against what is currently happening by pointing out how none of the politics being forced on us by the ruling elite in this country is in the interest of working people, and how the bourgeois liberal parties are not on their side. And most importantly we have to stay on message and avoid being dragged into weird academic theoretical debates that the vast majority of workers don’t care about and doesn’t affect their day to day lives.
good points. thank you.
currently, I’m feeling the strain very much. I run some efforts mostly on my own, supporting both the local community and giving comrades a regular place to meet. it is at times hard to keep going as i dont have the capacity to be my own ideological guide and the man on the ground.
what would help is if i could pull back on theory or praxis and not be the most progressive force in both as I understand that this is not a pace I can hold forever, especially against opposition from outside and at times inside.
I think this is a very new problem in germany as at least in my local groups the communist movement was completely stamped out and I was pretty much the first to get back into it and have pulled in people behind me. At this point I’m more or less thinking aloud: I think it is important for those who are deep into theory by now and have practical experience on the streets to get connected before the german gestapo can react. again, not being tailist, so to speak.
I’ll probably update on this both in my podcast radio-free-germany and on my blog. the podcast should be available here if you search for it and my blog is https://blog.giftedmc.com/.