I think that putting posters in bathrooms, or even just sticky notes that say “Free Palestine” would be underwhelming although enough people doing it would probably catch attention. With the internet, it is very easy to spread proletarian news or ideas but liberals still reject it on ideological grounds and loyalty to the status quo. What are some methods of praxis or propagandizing a person can do alone in real life, without an organization, and somewhat clandestinely? Please don’t say anything online would make it more difficult for you or other revolutionaries to do it successfully in the future.
touch grass
In my niche, the only praxis I can do rn is inform like “Who owns the AAA studios?” or “Why eco friendly products are a scam”
Praxis is organising.
I’ve been going door to door with graphs of the USSR’s GDP per capita from 1930-1940 with the caption “This could be us but you playin’”
I estimate Australia will become the Australian Socialist Soviet Republic within the year if I keep this up.
Are you social enough that you could attend a protest or something in your area? Could be a good place to make friends whilst standing up for your beliefs and taking, at the very least, some actions toward them.
without an organization
If you mean “without an organization pre-existing,” the answer is obvious: start an organization. It’d be much easier to join one, but your stipulations are your stipulations.
If you mean “without an organization at all,” then the answers are “have money” or “do adventurism*” because there simply isn’t much you can do outside of an organization
*disclaimer: I don’t mean blow something up. Actions like what you describe with the stickers is also a type of adventurism if it’s not part of some sort of systemic campaign but just you “redecorating”.
On a more positive note, since you’re interested in the topic of propaganda and rhetoric, here’s my favorite essay:
Do you know of any good literature on adventurism specifically? I have a general idea of it in broad strokes, but would be helpful to read more about it in detail from revolutionaries past or present.
Thanks! I’ll look at those.
Praxis can be as simple as being kind to a neighbor. Be friendly. Garden with them. When you make a pot of chili, offer them a few bowls.
Comrade doesn’t just mean we’re gonna get some Kalashnikova and do a revolution! It means fellowship with folks just like you, stuck in the same messed up situation, and you standing together against it.
Based and anarchistpilled.
There’s no praxis without organization when it comes to revolutionary praxis of the working class. So ideally what a single, isolated person can do is to join other single, isolated people and begin small, by organizing a Marxist study group, for instance.
Agitation and education are examples of praxis one can do without an organization. Ideally they should put people on the path to organizing, or directly be part of an organization effort, but even in isolation they at least sow the seeds for people to move in the right direction.
Absolutely, every “isolated” action is not isolated, what we share with people around us can be shared by people around them. In terms of the subjective conditions for a revolution, this is necessary, and natural even. After all, we are communists in our personal lives as well.
In terms of the objective conditions for a revolution, it all boils down to organization up until the organization is able to supersede the organization of the bourgeois state. So, for revolutionary praxis, there’s no other method.
I say this not condemning anyone for not organizing, there could be several reasons one chooses not to. I’m not organized in a party, for instance, after I broke with PCB in 2021. But I practice organization in parts of my life, such as on ProleWiki, basically only bureaucratically managing stuff. This does not count as revolutionary praxis, in my opinion, even, if there’s a revolutionary purpose.
I have a group with only three people, me, another commie and a left-leaning sympathizer. We created an informal WhatsApp group simply to discuss about these subjects. We are thinking about adding more people. If I’m able to convince the group to study Marxism together, and create a Marxist group, we could perhaps do interesting things in terms of revolutionary praxis, but we’re only engaging here and then, it’s nothing serious, so it’s not even close to that.
This is what I think in terms of revolutionary praxis. Organization is a survival tactic of working people, and we should not be restricted to currently existing parties, nor be afraid to form organizationо of our own to fight for certain immediate issues. This is the only and true revolutionary praxis, everything outside of this is a form of deviation.
That depends… How much enriched uranium do you have access to?
