hail

[masty]

hey revleft, I'm a young white american communist sympathetic to third-worldism so I'll be shuffling off to oi in short order but before I did I thought it best to introduce myself! I grew up in the northeast but I've lived elsewhere, and currently I'm involved in study groups and union organizing in my warehouse. I spend my free time in my tiny acidic garden (I've got a car this year so I might bring in some manure to fix that) or in my chair reading. life is pretty good all things considered but the more I study the greater grows the storm visible on the horizon! red salute.

[ellipsis]

welcome, good luck with the garden!

[NoOneIsIllegal]

You're organizing your work but you're a third worldist? I'm not too familiar with MTW, but I thought they didn't believe in developed countries having revolutionary spirit? Unless you're just organizing for the sake of pay and benefits, rather than the revolutionary-edge to it.

Sorry about that, just curious.

Anyway, welcome!

[masty]

no it's fine. organizing has to go on, it just has to be done without blinders is all. a large percentage of the population here (on revleft I mean) are probably students or otherwise privileged people, so 'logically' according to an overly strict reading of third-worldist analysis, none of them should exist and revleft is an absurdity. but actually you can (and have to) organize not only with proletarians (prisoners, migrant workers etc. in the first world) but also with whoever else is sympathetic. it's possible, though unlikely in most cases, that even though the white working class has been historically reactionary that individuals can work with you. same for students, professionals, even people living in the burbs.

but, anyways, most of the people at my work are hispanic and pacific islander and we're making the traditional union demands, for now. but I would have to do the same thing even if the white contingent were dominant. I don't allow my ideology to excuse myself from work. most other third-worldists don't ether. sakai, for instance, wrote settlers from a shop-floor and activist background.

e: I have to emphasize I'm not putting myself on the same level as sakai.