Thinking that funding initiatives will result in anything other than self-perpetuation is pretty naive. The countless "revolutionary" parties currently existing would be irrelevant in a revolutionary situation.
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I'd rather rely on crowdfunding or something like that.
☭ “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” - Karl Marx ☭
Thinking that funding initiatives will result in anything other than self-perpetuation is pretty naive. The countless "revolutionary" parties currently existing would be irrelevant in a revolutionary situation.
Although it has potential, I think this thread is really not ready for prime time. Moved to chitchat.
百花齐放
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la luz
de un Rojo Amanecer
anuncia ya
la vida que vendrá.
-Quilapayun
Sell Che shirts in competition with revleft.
May the best petty bourgeois win.
Worker-run bars. I believe that German autonomists have done this with some success. Of course a collectively-managed business is still exploitative, it's still a business, but it's arguably better than the alternative as a way of supporting oneself financially (the alternative being entering into a conventional boss-employee relationship somewhere).
Then of course there's a whole host of less-than-legal options...armed robbery, fraud, providing illicit goods & services, etc. Probably aren't many social bandits on revleft though (although I know of at least one revlefter who went to prison for conducting such activities w/ the goal of funding left-wing organizations)
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
Homemade wine.
Reselling goods that "fell off the truck".
Stick'n'pokes.
Sincerely though, one of my "if the rev doesn't happen before I'm in my mid-forties" plans is to open a greasy-spoon providing affordable potato-products and poorly-paid-but-relatively-bearable jobs in an environment that is actively hostile to cops and yuppies. Like, a standing policy of not serving people in uniform, etc.
The life we have conferred upon these objects confronts us as something hostile and alien.
Formerly Virgin Molotov Cocktail (11/10/2004 - 21/08/2013)
One thing that works is to have parties, take an entry fee and sell alcohol (so make sure no punks bring their own homemade wine...). I've been in groups which (semi-legally) made $5000, with all costs deduced, in an evening. Mostly on hipsters, to make it even better. Made our local group richer than the federation we were part of itselfThat maybe won't work everywhere though, the police seems to ignore these parties - they even visited ours, without caring - where i live. As long as everybody's old enough to drink.
"Everyone knows Kautsky’s inclination to turn from the twentieth century to the eighteenth, and from the eighteenth century to classical antiquity, and we hope that the German proletariat, after it has attained its dictatorship, will bear this inclination of his in mind and appoint him, say, teacher of ancient history at some Gymnasium."
Firebox, obvz
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Interesting aside - there's an argument put forward in "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" (it's a collection of essays but different folks - so lots of different things are proposed) that we should really just go back to collecting dues.
There are worse ideas.
Good book tho.
The life we have conferred upon these objects confronts us as something hostile and alien.
Formerly Virgin Molotov Cocktail (11/10/2004 - 21/08/2013)
