Recruitment ideas and strategies

[Blanquist]

Can someone give me a run-down on how to recruit? Any tips and ideas. Any unorthodox?

[o well this is ok I guess]

Er, kinda depends on what you're recruiting for.

[Blanquist]

Er, kinda depends on what you're recruiting for.

A political party.

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

What are its principles?

[o well this is ok I guess]

A political party. You're gonna have to elaborate further, man.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Can someone give me a run-down on how to recruit? Any tips and ideas. Any unorthodox?Just talk. Be open, ask questions. Be patient with them and try and see where they are coming from and relate their experiences in life to "the big picture" when possible.

So that's the first step, allow people to be comfortable and draw them out, see where they are coming from. Then from there you can be a little more critical in your approach and your decisions on how to proceed - you'll have a sense if they are itching to be involved, if they only like the ideals but don't actually think X is possible, or if they are just a wanker who likes to feel smart through pseudo-intellectual and abstract discussions.

Anyway, there's no formula, everyone is different: talk it over, see what happens. There's no revolution today so the stakes are low and so if you fuck up talking to someone and somehow give them the impression that post-capitalism society means everyone has to wear the same Mao-suits and paint a Gorbachev birthmark on their forhead, then consider it a learning experience.

[ellipsis]

I found that showing people what your group is capable of by means of sucessful propaganda actions will increase interest and recruits for a group.

[ellipsis]

Also have regular, public discussions, salons, or lecture series.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Don't "recruit". Carry out meaningful activity, and develop worthwhile theory out of it. If the activity is actually meaningful and the theory is actually good, then people will seek you out. It should be less a question of recruiting then of figuring out how to meaningfully include people - what skills do they have? What are their interests? What can the organization provide for them?