What do you do?

[oneday]

As part of the revolutionary left, what type of actions do you take to express your political views?

[sev1988]

I have a hard time getting out to do much activism due to my disabilities. However, when I'm talking with someone I know, I'll usually bring up communist ideas without saying where they're from to test the waters. I'm finding, at least with the people I see regularly, that they're more receptive to the ideas than I would have thought.

The reactions I've gotten have been from curious but cautious end of the spectrum to down right agreement with what I've said or had them read.

[mushroompizza]

I usually write stuff on walls, put up posters, go on revleft, I dont really have the time or resources to do more.

[Comrade Jacob]

I sit on my arse.

[BIXX]

I text while I'm at work. One time I even sent two whole text messages before I got back to work, but of course I worked harder afterward to make up for the texts.

[Rosa Partizan]

I started some refugee activism several months ago in some kind of new "group". We don't call it group, we try to be clandestine. Didn't work out that well when the police started taking photographs, lulz. But Idk, I don't find this super radical, liberals could do the same.

[G4b3n]

I work at the women's center of my University. We organize events focused on drawing attention to gender issues for the campus and community as a whole.
I wish there was more radical organizing in my area, but it is what it is.

[Sinister Intents]

I own Capital and work alongside my fellow workers, and italk revolutionary politics at them. I also argue on the internet

[John Nada]

Get high and drunk, then rant and rave to friends about how capitalism is bullshit. Laaang liv- what it's- peapos wahaaaar!:tongue_smilie:

[Jacky Hearts]

Normally protests and stuff and generally trying to discuss things with people.

Currently I'm trying to talk with people across Manchester where I live to set up an informal reactionary group. The idea is that we react to certain policies with an appropriate action (I got the idea when at a protest we fed a group of homeless protesters and provided them with donated essentials) which will benefit the community and use that as an opportunity to educate people why their personal struggles relate to the artificial hierarchies established by Capitalism and the State.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

I have a hard time getting out to do much activism due to my disabilities.
Same here, plus I'm a caregiver for my mother, so at this point in my life, most of my activism is online.

[sev1988]

It's great to find someone like me here. I often feel a bit guilty doing online activism primarily, but it's the most accessible avenue for me right now. Which is why I get annoyed and/or a bit hurt when I see other people put down online activism.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

People who put down online activism have an unrealistic view of activism. It's important to do something, but what that something is, is very much dictated by life circumstances. Can you agitate online? Can you educate online? Can you organize online? Yes, you can.

[RedWorker]

Convincing people and promoting socialism is probably more relevant today than joining any sect. We are not in a revolutionary time.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

I'm trying to escape into the ivory tower at the moment.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

I'm part of a small anarchist organization that:
a) Tries to organize practical networks of mutual aid and free exchange
b) Intervenes in "social movement" spaces and attempts to introduce anarchist theory and practice (often through propaganda)
c) Develops our own capacity for coordinated action by carrying out actions together, reading and writing collectively, etc.

I'm also part of another autonomous group which publishes a small-run (300-400 copies) monthly open-submissions broadsheet prioritizing the voices of low-wage workers, especially women, within an anti-racist, feminist, anti-capitalist editorial framework. The goal of the paper is to facilitate connections and communications between workers in order to develop theory and practice from the standpoint of "everyday life" rather than starting from a common ideological language.

. . . and petty hooliganism. Lots of spitting. :laugh:

[Cliff Paul]

I text while I'm at work. One time I even sent two whole text messages before I got back to work, but of course I worked harder afterward to make up for the texts.

When I worked as a pizza delivery driver I would occasionally stop at other restaurants and buy their pizza to eat. When I'd finally get back after the delivery I'd say "sorry it took so long, the traffic was terrible".

[sev1988]

I've started a local Youth Rights group in my town. We're small, but I hope to have us to some activism around the voting age.

Right now, were reading though some Youth Rights articles. :)

[lutraphile]

I've converted several people I know. Mostly slowly, going through social democracy first

[#FF0000]

I do a lot of work with my IWW branch. We're in the very early stages of one union campaign at a local place of business, looking at what we've got to work with to decide upon reasonable goals with the folks we're working with. We're also working on setting up a worker's center in the region.

[odysseus]

Not much yet, but when I go to college I'll be doing much as I can.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

I usually write stuff on walls

Just a reminder that everyone should be very careful with answering this question. You don't want to give a prosecutor evidence.

[odysseus]

Simple fix Brosa. Find out which of us is a defense attourney, claim this site is for his pro Bono clients and wala, client attourney privilege :laugh:

[Bala Perdida]

I wonder why I associate with such terrible people, who's politics and (in connection) general train of thought are terrible. Then I stop associating with those people and feel great. Also, I'm in the midst of gathering free stuff and trying to organize a free-store. It sounds so easy, but people are terrible. Connecting back to the first sentence lol.

[Futility Personified]

Get completely KOed at the pub on whiskey then sing Marvin Gaye songs in the shower. I am the true revolutionary, posers.

[Lanfear]

I do what I can do when I can do it. I am also in the lcuky position with my work that I can try and influence younger generations (Im a teacher) to think outside the box when it comes to politics, try to educate them on different issues etc

[GiantMonkeyMan]

I recently persuaded the football team that I play for to buy red and black shirts (the other option was yellow and blue). I literally said, "Red and black looks nicer... I'm also a dirty red" and they went for it. Some major insurrecto shit right there.

[Ele'ill]

*edit- but mainly doing drugs and watching romantic comedies

[Palmares]

Well, at differing times I have been quite active, IRL as they say, such as involved in social centres and holding workshops (used to do a bunch on consent for example), but a mixture of jadedness (questioning the strategic effectiveness of my past "activism") and more recently (last year or so) health stuff/differently-abledness has caused that to slump. To the point, that I'd say I mostly do little besides frequenting this forum.

[RedWorker]

I recently persuaded the football team that I play for to buy red and black shirts (the other option was yellow and blue). I literally said, "Red and black looks nicer... I'm also a dirty red" and they went for it. Some major insurrecto shit right there.

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