On meeting comrades

[Rawthentic]

I need ideas and tips on how to meet comrades that are in your city. My city is about 40 sq miles, with a pop of about 250k. How have you people gotten others together? thanks

[Jaden]

At my college, there is a Socialist Club. It's very handy to meet more comrades of the revolutionary left, and it's not strictly just socialist. Communists and Anarchists join the club, too, because it's basically the only club that promotes anything close to what our ideaologies are. If you go to college, you might want to look up the clubs at your college. I imagine that the proper uni has more rev-left clubs, or at least a bigger one! (I'm in the community college).

You could also just start building up a network of people to find more comrades. I don't really display the hammer'n'sickle on my arm whenever I go out, but you might wanna try that, eh? Showing that you're of the revolutionary persuasion could encourage your comrades to go up and introduce themselves to you. Or at least get potential comrades curious. I'm always up for debating with people, and sometimes I end up getting people to seriously think about joining the movement. Don't expect them to be persuaded with just one day's worth of debating. ;)

Good luck on finding comrades in your area! Maybe you could start a community thing with it. Y'know, community centers are a good place to look along with uni's.

[Orange Juche]

I live in a county of 200,000, and a city of 40,000. Yet I have yet, every time I seek out, to meet people with any incline of beliefs regarding revolutionary left wing ideology.

Its all a bunch of middle aged "progressives" giving John Kerry a reacharound.

I'm one of maybe 15 (I'm being generous with that number) people under 25 in my area who ever (even if barely at all) attempt to do anything politically left wing.

I fucking hate this place.

[Rawthentic]

Thats nice...I was hoping for tips on how to meet other people with like minds.

[Red October]

look for chapters of socialist organizations or other socialist groups, especially at schools. or even take out an ad in the paper for a socialist gathering and see who shows up.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by Red October [email protected] 18 2006, 03:13 PM
take out an ad in the paper for a socialist gathering and see who shows up.
the feds

[Rawthentic]

Yeah, I know. Im not sure that putting up and ad for that would generate much attention anyway. I am looking for comrades, but there has got be better and efficient ways to get to meet them in my city.

[redwinter]

if there's 250,000 people in your town, those are your comrades and that's what you have to work with. mao wrote that revolutionaries must "swim among the people like a fish in the water" - we die if we aren't constantly among the masses and learning from them at the same time that we take to them the science of revolution and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

I would suggest going around your neighborhood and other nearby areas, college campuses and high schools, going to concerts and festivals, parks where people chill or play basketball or soccer....that's where you're gonna find your comrades and the people that are actually going to make revolution. if you sit around in some socialist circle-jerk you ain't gonna get shit accomplished...there's another quote somewhere that goes something like, "practice is higher than theory because it has the dignity of immediate actuality" - you can have all the theory you want to but it is worthless without getting it out to the people at large.

there is a link in my signature to the website for Revolution newspaper. you can go to the website and sign up to become a distributor - you can start off by getting 10 or 20 copies a week, getting them out to people and talkin about what the content is and encouraging them to study it and to donate to support the paper, you make contacts in this way with people on the street and can do regular political work with them, study groups, protest, raise hell, and build the basis for a revolutionary core in your area.

so holla back at me and let me know what you think about this bold proposal....

[Janus]

Look around for local infoshops,etc. or talk to people at various protests or rallies. There have to be some like-minded individuals and various actions in a city of 250,000.