chapotraphouse

I did think about this while I was writing it, I am currently unemployed because of my agitating at work. Just remind yourself this was written in the 1930s, for communist party members who needed to be who were being a bit academic and weird, the vanguard from the ivory tower.

Dont be too hard on yourself, we can only do our best. I spend half my life gossiping to my closest allies but half the people i work with make me feel unsafe to broach these things with.

Organising at work can be as simple as asking your work mates if theyre in a union, if its anything like my experience youll just be shut down by someone who's saving for europe or something.

It is scary, being brave doesnt mean not being afraid.

Depression in my experience is doing less than the minimum, haha yay 😮‍💨

This has been stripped of references to party work, but it relates to that

Agreed. This advice only works in the context of being part of a revolutionary party actively in the process of seizing state power. And I think this proves a good point-- without a disciplined party organization, we are all libs. I mean, shitheads

I agree. Its also not particularly safe to do.

I realise how silly I probably look posting quotes of text that argue against book worship, but we should tell Mao to read Mao or something

III OPPOSE BOOK WORSHIP Whatever is written in a book is right — such is still the mentality of culturally backward Chinese peasants. Strangely enough, within the Communist Party there are also people who always say in a discussion, "Show me where it's written in the book." When we say that a directive of a higher organ of leadership is correct, that is not just because it comes from "a higher organ of leadership" but because its contents conform with both the objective and subjective circumstances of the struggle and meet its requirements. It is quite wrong to take a formalistic attitude and blindly carry out directives without discussing and examining them in the light of actual conditions simply because they come from a higher organ. It is the mischief done by this formalism which explains why the line and tactics of the Party do not take deeper root among the masses. To carry out a directive of a higher organ blindly, and seemingly without any disagreement, is not really to carry it out but is the most artful way of opposing or sabotaging it.

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I live in a heavily catholic European country, If I berated and cut contact with every racist, homophobic or transphobic person in my life I might as well go live in the woods alone.

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Please excuse me, I am australian, but also considering its replacing liberalism i think a term a lil harsher than dingus

either way i should have workshopped this more

Dingus is too nice.