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Back when there was a substantial labour movement socialising was absolutely a part of their strategy. They didn't just organise strikes or hold political meetings they also organised dances, social events for pensioners, night classes, bands, scouting associations — the works.
All of this soft cultural work was not only helping workers to make the best out of the current conditions under capitalism, it helped to build class consciousness and solidarity. I believe that a future successful proletarian movement will need to incorporate these elements as well.
That does remind me. If we are going to organize, part of the strategy should be to make the left the fun side.
There’s actually an article about it, although it was written by a liberal doing electoralism: here