#imalittlestupid

[milfstalin]

Hey, I saw your post, and I just so happen to be looking for advice on how to organize. I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide!

hi. well that was sort of a trick post in that your circumstances are going to affect your choices very much ! down to class position & location i would say. also i am writing this assuming that you have no experience at all & are also a communist / dialectical materialist.

the communist movement in the us is very fractured right now, as well as a low level of class consciousness (due to imperialism & de-industrialization) that is easily redirected towards rightwing organizing because of settlerism & white supremacy and likely you are going to find more non-communists (anarchists, radlibs, etc) than communists around in your area - do not take this as being impossible to work with them, and especially if you do not know any other communists in your area then you will be alone otherwise.

my experience is mostly related to student activism starting from college and precisely, single-issue activism related to the pro-palestine movement & lgbt+ rights organizing, but i would say that the most important first step is to take stock of your material conditions.

what progressive groups currently exist in your area? student groups like ydsa at a local university? branches and chapters of cpusa or psl? a food not bombs group? horizontalist mutual aid groups? dsa chapters? bds or jvp? tenants unions and trade unions? what concrete goals have they accomplished? which ones are viable for you to show up and contribute towards? for example if you are a studnet it will be naturally easier for you to get into student organizations. if you are a service worker then chat with other service workers in your workplace and get a read of the situation. are there local protests going on? reformist efforts or dual power building? etc. try contacting them. ask what they are all about and how you can contribute.

most likely, there will be public events to try and entice the masses to join up for protests & rallies. check local facebook, instagram, reddit, other social medias.

the first goal here is to find a low-barrier entry point to get experience with any type of organizing in the first place, essentially to get your feet wet, whether with horizontalists or with big tent groups or full-fledged democratic centralists- inevitably, you will experience positive and negative sides of each organizational style; what is important is learning by doing- iterate on your past efforts, and dont repeat techniques that lead to disaster. it is learning by doing.

the second goal is to build up a local network of people you know and can trust in the local scene so to speak, finding potentially other communists too. odds are that you will have to deal with a deluge of non-communists in general, but you can also demonstrate communist organizational techniques and educate other organizers by practice- the most convincing way is to demonstrate the correctness of your theory by actually doing it and actually winning so to speak.

the third goal is more my read on the circumstances - we must prioritize education on the class struggle and creating new communists requires talking to non-communists. the first two goals will lead to this naturally. but talking is not enough, demonstration is also required.

but the hardest part is the first step, actually making contact with people, then the rest will follow naturally in my opinion. anyways good luck out there, it is tough, but i believe in you!!!