I’m Reading A Thing About The Mujeres Libres and It’s Making Me Think About Tactics

Like I think organizing effective community based, leaderless useful shit is a really important way of advertising “Hey, our stuff isn’t just a bunch of nice ideas that can’t be implemented, look at our example” and also allows people to practice self organization and self rule to prepare for the responsibilities of a stateless society. We need to take pride in building practical, useful structures for cooperation and mutual aid.

Like I think it might actually be important to keep our buildings in good order and ourselves looking put together (put together doesn’t mean traditional, it just means like maintaining the roots on your blue hair, and laundering ones trousers and such) whenever possible, because it says “Hey, we’re not a bunch of vague dreamers, we can do stuff, we’re energetic” which I mean is obviously not possible for everyone or in all situations, and shouldn’t be prioritized over other human needs, but IDK.

Also I think it’s important that we look at the science of persuasion, because obviously it’s not enough to get our ideas out there, we need to look at what actually changes beliefs, because what works isn’t always what seems like it should work.

I Think A Thing The Left Needs Less Of

Is religious devotion to untested methods.  The goal is more important than how we get there.

If anarcho-syndicalism gets us to a reduction of suffering, great, if Marxism does that, great, if Marxism-Leninism gets us there, if anarcho-communism gets us there, if Trotskyism gets us there, great great great, but what’s important is people not starving and being happy.

That’s literally it.

Oh and combating fascism.

Like I think we need to not be sure our faction is the ONE TRUE WAY TM, while cooperating to eliminate capitalism.  Absolute certainty in one’s methods leads to shit like Stalin and the disastrous end of the Spanish revolution.

All I want is for the world to be a kinder, happier place.  Theoretical rectitude matters nothing to me 

Like I’m not an economist, I’m not a political scientist and it seems like none of them agree with each other anyway, and so I don’t know which way gets us there, but we don’t have a map and so we need to explore the forest in order to find paradise.

I may have my pet theories, cobbled together from what I like from various people, but I am absolutely not sure of anything but the unquestionable need to eliminate capitalism