@GLOPULON@BDVW98@SwampCommunist Actually many of us have been organizing at UPS, we hold meetings, educational events, write petitions, file grievances, march on the boss and organize rallies. In 2023 we delivered a real strike threat with pickets at countless hubs across the country. There is a movement here
idk why I engage with anyone on this hellscape platform, shouldn't be shocking that these treatlerites hate the idea of having any kind of skin in the game
translation: I skill issued and I acted like a turbo weirdo in front of my co-workers and they wouldn't start the revolution in 48 hours so now I'm mad
College marxiods screaming about this while almost every major University is going through budget cuts and lay offs is pretty funny ngl, like buddy you're gonna be looking for work soon enough and idk kind of work you can get with a humanities degree
Everyone wants to raise class consciousness of the working class, nobody wants to join the working class to do so. Which means you’re content to tell people what to do without having experience. Trying to tell people what a pear tastes like without having taken a bite.
@Comunizzazione@yiskaschwizzle I've built a sense of community with people that I adore, won several political campaigns, and no longer feel helpless in this capitalist hellscape. have fun Posting I guess
The amount of people who call themselves communists who have proudly and openly taken the position that they HAVE to be academics because the wc is violent, reactionary, and dangerous really has been quite the thing to see... literally a bunch of people who r terrified of the wc
@Comunizzazione@yiskaschwizzle all of my free time and money for the past 12 years in the movement against police crimes, now IR work. I've faced stalking/harassment from reactionaries, police brutality, rejected jobs, minimized social life, list goes on. I'm better for it and don't regret any of it.
Yeah I mean tbh this is why the whole “performative male” joke bothers me. We tell men to read, but then assume any alternative of center guy with a vaguely progressive book is doing it for sex or clout, as if we can read their mind!