interesting mix of union folks, No Kings liberals, and your usual crank socialists. in a way it's charming and quaint to see Socialist Workers Party table, like aww, there are still Trotskyists following the Zionist line?? adorable.
interesting mix of union folks, No Kings liberals, and your usual crank socialists. in a way it's charming and quaint to see Socialist Workers Party table, like aww, there are still Trotskyists following the Zionist line?? adorable.
some of the liberals were passing around t-shirts with something something 3.5% and i reiterate my belief that it's total bullshit. get a real theory of change please
ok 3.5% of people go into the street. what then. do you think people in power check the numbers and go "ahh damn, got us"
he wasn't one of them, but i had an extended convo with a local Indivisible organizer. good dude. there seems to be a growing strand of what i'd call revolutionary liberals, liberals who realize that the problems go past Trump and individual billionaires, and know we need some massive change...
...because just being practical, we can't abolish the senate or the supreme court without a new Constitution. but they're questioning of socialism, so they don't align with any specific leftist revolutionary lineage.
he asked me what i thought of Occupy and for recommendations of previous groups to look into (i mentioned ACT UP and recommended 'let the record show'); i talked about how i see the importance of prefiguration
I heard something about a table with a sign denying that there was a genocide in Gaza. Was that the SWP?
Must’ve been