Rawthentic
15th May 2007, 04:43
I am currently working, as a CL member, with a farm worker's organization called "La Union del Pueblo Entero" (LUPE), which translates to the "Union of the Entire People", and is the organizing and community arm of the fallen Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union.
The first job I was given was to take care of little children after school, watch over them, make sure they do their homework and get along fine. This is good I guess, but not what I expected. I was expecting to do political work with the farm workers and all.
I know that the youth are the future, and the "Youth Make the Revolution" as Fred Hampton said, but what do you suggest I do in this case. I was hoping to gain trust from the kids, and eventually from their parents, whom are the ones I want to get out to. Suggestions?
If it helps, my tasks as a communist are lined out in the Manifesto:
The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: 1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the lines of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement.
The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.
The first job I was given was to take care of little children after school, watch over them, make sure they do their homework and get along fine. This is good I guess, but not what I expected. I was expecting to do political work with the farm workers and all.
I know that the youth are the future, and the "Youth Make the Revolution" as Fred Hampton said, but what do you suggest I do in this case. I was hoping to gain trust from the kids, and eventually from their parents, whom are the ones I want to get out to. Suggestions?
If it helps, my tasks as a communist are lined out in the Manifesto:
The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: 1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the lines of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement.
The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.