I just went down to our local lib demonstration. All I could really feel was depressed. All those people waving signs but I wonder how many are willing to do anything more than that? Shit most of them were pretty old, tbh. I approached some people I clocked as comrades but I was very awkward and we didn’t have a conversation.
I guess I don’t really have a question here. Just feel like everybody has identified (some of) the problems, but have totally misidentified the solutions. Will these protests ever accomplish anything? Can we radicalize the protestors without them having to get beaten by cops? Or is that what it will take?
You’re right, and I get it. There just isn’t enough leftist power to sustain “doing something”. It’s frustrating to see so much wasted potential because libs are still so wedded to their idea of a civil system. But I understand that I bear responsibility for trying to build real organization out of what we have.