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Can we talk organizing? Historic resistance movements? Tips? Tricks? Thoughts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been thinking about this a lot recently. I'm sure a lot of you have. For my part, I've been finally writing down my political experience, what I saw, etc...in a way that I think might be able to move some people on the right. But I also agree with this post. People always talk/write, etc...and rarely actually take action.

So, with that in mind, can we talk about what that looks like? Very specifically?

I suppose I'm hoping we can go a step beyond "go protest," having unanimously agreed that we should all be out en masse to make it clear we're pissed about...well...kinda everything.

But this is a fairly radical bunch. So, what do you all know about this? What concrete advice/tips/plans/ideas can we dumbass individual Americans learn from historic examples, political movements, etc...? Indeed, one of those questions might be: is this even the place to talk about this? If not, where? Does that already exist somewhere in the aether out there? Communications is always an interesting to me (I've wondered whether something like LoRa could be useful to setup in my area).

If I want to start a group locally, are there things I should think about? Practical tips beyond "talk to everyone you know?" Books to read? Etc...? Even if you get a group, it's easy for it to mean nothing. How do you make it not mean nothing?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is going to sound a little stupid, but in a scenario like that I like to try to blend in with ultra-capitalists. As it turns out, really positive socialism/communism (just sharing in general basically) is pretty much the best way to do capitalism anyway.

Basically, I excel. That's what I'm doing at my current job. Getting qualified in 2 weeks instead of 6 months, doing extra work etc etc. right. Then, once you've established yourself as being someone "worth" listening to in the eyes of your capitalist bosses/coworkers, you just start relentlessly defending people. For example, they wanted to fire one of my coworkers for calling out too often so I basically sandbagged for a shift and then talked to my lead about how I just felt really shitty all day about her situation and they talked to HR for her.

After a while, people will start to think of you not only as a great worker, but as an advocate for them. They will look to you for guidance. They will listen to your opinions. You may not gain authority, but influence can be just as powerful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok. I kinda like that. I do tend to do the "blend in" part by nature just because I don't want my work to be a living hell everyday. But the full plan and what you said I like and might emulate it at my next career as I'm currently looking to transition careers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And the best part? If you get 3 months into this plan and go "man fuck this I'm just gonna coast" you've already established yourself as an influential, well taught individual which makes it way easier to coast. No one wants to fuck with the person who showed up and revolutionized shit by being Superman for a bit

Edit: plus you can more easily weaponize your work. Sandbagging is only effective if they know what you look like at 100%