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I feel like it's definitely going to happen at some point, but wrt timeframe neither tomorrow nor ten year's time would surprise me. What do we reckon?

I've recently been elected to a position of non-negligible power in a leftist organization. In my time in the org I've noticed a lot of little inefficiencies and communication breakdowns that I think could be solved with a more coherent structure. Are there any good texts on how revolutionary parties have been structured? I don't so much mean the theory of ML organization, but literally what the org chart of a party looks like. Who the officers are, what their responsibilities are, what kind of meetings and programs are being held, etc.

I recognize that what has worked historically might not work for my current situation, but I can't help feeling like we're probably reinventing the wheel over here and that most of our problems have probably been solved before. I also recognize that the most comprehensive answer is to study history, but I'm hoping for something a little more condensed.

Any reading recommendations or advice would be appreciated!

wall street is going down... so what?

will any of these ghouls be made homeless or is it all anxiety for them?

is is disappeared

good for him

he's the only one

So at least my perspective in the UK is rough: endless burnt-out teachers resorting to escalating punitive measures to control kids being raised on landlordism, misogyny, etc. that makes me fear the kind of environment id be exposing a future kid to.

Of course, homeschooling and alternative education is stigmatised across the political sphere, whether it's for legitimate reasons or otherwise. As socialists you also get exposed to a lot of critiques of so-called traditional school systems.

Do any parents here (or otherwise) have experience with homeschooling, or stuff like montessori, democratic schools, etc?

I have a friend who is essentially communist, we debate all sorts of things and he generally agrees we need to get rid of capitalism. However he is assured that there is no way to determine the value of commodities as effectively as the market can through supply and demand (aside from his argument that soon an AI super-intelligence can save us without the market incentives). I try to point out that the market as it is isn't efficient and creates massive waste, pointing to various ways that our system generates waste due to capitalism, and he agrees it is extremely inefficient but still the best we can do right now.

I have read a lot more theory about resistance to capitalism, insurgency, organization and the like but not as much about the specific economics of a communist society once we move past capitalism. Where would be a good place to start? Should I just quote Das Kapital to him?

I definitely had a crush on Eve looking back on it. Let me hear you out!

Do they come in wide-toed fits?

I'm not rich so the cheaper the better.

Nucleic domination has finally come to an end once and for all!

There are many people who have been posting about wanting to mobilize and become more engaged in mutual aid and organizing in my local subreddit. People are starting to become more desperate and are waking up to the fact that marches and solidarity protests and voting only do so much and they want real change. But many are probably Dems/Liberals who are just coming around to this since Trump won the election. So they have hardly any political consciousness whatsoever and some may still be turned off by the words "anarchism" and "communism". Though I think more people may be sympathetic to anarchism than ML, Lenin is still bad and scary to them I'm sure. Even Marx.

The discourse has actually been kind of sympathetic to alternative politics in forms of upvotes and such, so I am compiling a list of mutual aid groups locally and nationally that are doing on the ground, tangible work besides electoralism and I want to gather very digestible reads/podcasts/etc. to put into this resource list.

I am looking for Democratic Socialism resources, Anarchism, Socialist, Communist, Trans liberation, Indigenous liberation, abolition, organizing, stories about apolitical-represented sources regarding mutual aid, analysis of how Democrats & Republics go hand in hand etc. etc. ANYTHING to push people left, regardless of how milquetoast it may be. Whatever started to de-worm your brain that's perhaps a notch left of Bernie. Extra points for resources that are more focused on examples of organizing as opposed to strictly theory based stuff.

If there are particular episodes of more radical podcasts to listen to, all the better. I think ideal texts and such would be where the author critiques their own beliefs and finds faults in them, but can argue the benefits of it as well.

A couple ideas I have as of this morning are:

• People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
• Second Thought Podcast (Haven't really listened but it seems like a decent primer. Specific episode recs welcome)
• Blowback (So dense but riddled with primary sources and relatively unbiased)
• People's Guide to Capital (by Hadas Thier, quick and more focused on labor solidarity than revolution)
• Why Marx Was Right (by Terry Eagleton. Haven't read but was what pushed Breht from RevLeft to claim himself a communist)
• Possibly Dessalines' essays on github

I honestly don't get it.

Do they just love Trump/Musk so much that they'll make up any stupid ass excuse to distract from not one but TWO VERY OBVIOUS sieg heils from a WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN who grew up during apartheid? Is it because they're actually all secretly nazis themselves?

I had someone IRL the other day give the old "Oh he' just AUTISTIC and does FUNNY ARM GESTURES all the tiiiiiime!" excuse, I couldn't believe my ears. I figured outside of the Apartheid Defence League leadership nobody actually thought like that, but sure enough, they actually do.

What gives?

EDIT: I did not mean to imply in the title that Zionazis have large penises.

Is it still around? I haven't seen anything new there in a while