superborys
15th September 2010, 23:18
I have recently formulated the idea to speak in public. To get consent from the city hall in my town and to set up a sort of campaign speech sort of thing.
I was wondering how many other RevLefters feel this is a good approach.
I ask because I think that, even though some denizens on RevLeft say that you have to allow the people to find out about socialism through their own epiphanies and revelations, this is a constructive way to spread socialism.
I think a good, functional system would be to hold speeches and then to just tell them about the tenets of socialism, and explain why capitalism and the system of oligopolies that we have is manipulative. Letting people wait until they have their own epiphanies is very slow, and possibly too slow.
In my own opinion, I feel that even though class awareness has long been something that you must realize on your own, that sensibility may not be totally true. I feel that if you go out in public and explain socialism, and show people that big businesses hurt them, explain that a company couldn't exist unless there were some sort of labor-exploitation, that they would realize and perhaps look up for themselves. We cannot expect our dogmas and ideals to just seep out of our communities and suddenly become mainstream one day as we all seem to, and I say this figuratively. I have seldom heard of people talking about public speaking because they feel it's 'pushing the river', but it's not! Being the catalyst for a reaction that happens slowly is certainly not pushing the river, friends.
What does RevLeft think of public speaking as a way to raise public class awareness and salience of socio-communist ideas?
I was wondering how many other RevLefters feel this is a good approach.
I ask because I think that, even though some denizens on RevLeft say that you have to allow the people to find out about socialism through their own epiphanies and revelations, this is a constructive way to spread socialism.
I think a good, functional system would be to hold speeches and then to just tell them about the tenets of socialism, and explain why capitalism and the system of oligopolies that we have is manipulative. Letting people wait until they have their own epiphanies is very slow, and possibly too slow.
In my own opinion, I feel that even though class awareness has long been something that you must realize on your own, that sensibility may not be totally true. I feel that if you go out in public and explain socialism, and show people that big businesses hurt them, explain that a company couldn't exist unless there were some sort of labor-exploitation, that they would realize and perhaps look up for themselves. We cannot expect our dogmas and ideals to just seep out of our communities and suddenly become mainstream one day as we all seem to, and I say this figuratively. I have seldom heard of people talking about public speaking because they feel it's 'pushing the river', but it's not! Being the catalyst for a reaction that happens slowly is certainly not pushing the river, friends.
What does RevLeft think of public speaking as a way to raise public class awareness and salience of socio-communist ideas?