I’ve been trying to find an organization to get involved in but a lot of the bigger Leftist orgs in America have some kind of controversy related to them and that’s a bit off-putting.
Freedom Road Socialist Organization is the only one I’ve heard of that doesn’t appear to have any stains on it and that’s piqued my interest. Does anyone have any experience with them? Are they a good org?
Orgs in the west in general are just not that great. Frso rejects the settler colonial character of the USA as per J sykes essay on it, and they’ve been a pre-party formation for over 30 years now. The few Frso members I’ve interacted with online were very keen on recruiting new members which is not where priorities should lie for an org. Members will come if you do good work you shouldn’t have to be doing recruitment drives.
Our party is having this period in which it is more of a MLM scheme than a party because all they keep asking for is new members or signing petitions and it is wearing me out really. What if we, you know, actually did something? Set up a local inititative or whatever? But nobody seems to really listen.
Yeah, Western orgs do seem kinda pathetic these days. Very disappointed to hear they reject the obvious settler-colonial structure of America. How any Marxist can come to that kind of conclusion I have no idea. Patriotic Socialism maybe?
I kind-of agree on the recruitment drive thing but also it’s a lot easier to do good work the more people you have. But yeah, recruitment shouldn’t be their first priority. That kinda gives me Kautsky vibes.
They are just doing the classic class reductionism analysis, I don’t think they are pat docs. They just want to think of themselves as equally exploited as everyone else instead of as the labor aristocracy that they are inherently as settlerz