Yes I said that and then I went on to explain what I meant by this but you decided I was saying a bunch of other stuff.
You didn’t raise objections to anything I said. You keep batting at your own misrepresentation of what I could be meaning ignoring the fact that there is an explanation of what I mean right there.
Again you didn’t read what I wrote. I never said “dont ortganize.”
I am done talking with you. Your arguing against things I didn’t even come close to saying. If you want to argue in bad faith there’s a whole fediverse out there full of libs and chuds.
pretend communism doesn’t exist and act like you have no affiliation with it.
Where did I say this?
But if you’re wanting to organize people, you won’t lead them by pretending you’re something you aren’t
Again where did I say this? Its like you read one sentence decided to inject the worst possible meaning into it when the explanation was right there.
As individuals, 1st world communists need to be loud and proud but as organizations, we need to only exist in secret. A 1st world communist org that is open about what it is, is either co-opted by the feds or is going to get shut down regardless of whether it is a book club, a political party or a mutual aid focused org. McCarthyism never ended they just ran out of communists dumb enough to stick their necks out.
If as individuals we go and volunteer at an existing soup kitchen we can interact with non-marxists who are willing to work to help make things better and have the time to do so. At the worst we might get told not to come help the soup kitchen because our politics are too radical. but people are still gonna get fed even if we have to find a new place to sling soup.
If we organize a communist soup kitchen, the only people who will hear the message of marxism will be hungry people, too preoccupied getting dinner to think about overthrowing the bourgeoise and we will spend all our energry running a soup kitchen. If we are lucky we’ll get out there a second time only to get a cease and desist from local government delivered by pigs with tazers. If we are unlucky a black van will show up and take all the volunteers away.
The only way for a marxist org to actually operate a soup kitchen would be to… pretend the org is something it is not.
The burnt cookies are factored in because it is all based on averages. If 1 in 100 cookies are burnt the burnt cookies are worthless but the unburnt ones make up that loss. The guy who can burn no cookies will profit more than average.
The exchange value of a commodity is derived by the average labor time it takes to create the product. “Labor time” also includes all the time not working that is required to be spent maintain and reproducing the labourers. A job that is hard on the body needs more rest time, a job that requires more training takes more time to reproduce workers. Automation lowers commodity prices because it reduces both the physical strain and training required thus making workers able to spend more of their lives producing.
I never got though capital because I found the best way to understand it was to re read the whole thing from the start after reading a new chapter.
Helping people is great but directly tying that in with your communism is a good way to ruin both. The goal of revolutionary communists is to raise class consciousness and overthrow the bourgeoise. (the completion of which is the ultimate form of “helping people”) This requires secrecy because the capitalist do not want to be overthrown. Mutual aid can be a means to our end but must always be seen as that. Join existing non revolutionary orgs to help people and agitate within those orgs.
I don’t think any first world communist organization is worth joining. “The gendarmes” have a infiltrators in every public communist org. They are a trap. Secrecy is one of the most important aspects of a revolutionary org as laid out by Lenin in What is to be Done.
Agitation should be the primary focus of communists in the first world. If you want to help people go work at a non communist mutual aid org and agitate among the other workers. Read lots of theory and history so that when someone asks you “where did you learn about all that” you can give them a book recommendation. The goal of communists is not to “help people” it is to raise class consciousness in order to bring about the revolution.
First world communists need to stop looking to join an organization and start building their own from scratch. McCarthyism was a declaration of war and the communists need to start acting like it and not grouping together where we can be easily targeted. We need to stop building a party and start building a guerrilla style web of agitators educators and propogandists.
If you are successful in agitation it should naturally evolve into revolutionary cell of your own. Don’t trust individuals who seek you out trying to join the revolution. If someone has read theory and wants to “organize” tell them to go start their own cell. Feds read theory. Only trust ignorant people to join your cell. If you watch someone be radicalized you know they are not a mole. Keep your cell small enough that you can manage it yourself like 10 people.
Cells should have innocuous unassuming names (like randomized reddit usernames) that can be used as identifiers for the group but not to identify what the group is and does.
As members of your cell get better educated they can go off and agitate on their own and they should never to introduce you to their recruits or to the other members of your cell. We need to keep things compartmentalized.
Come up with a code phrase that your cell can use to tell each other if you have been compromised. When your cell has been compromised cut face to face contact completely. (The Russian gendarmes used to let the most active revolutionaries escape a raid and keep tabs on them to line up the next bust. On one occasion they allowed a high level political assassination go unmolested in order to build trust for their operatives inside the org.) An online space like lemmygrad is a great way to keep in contact after cutting ties without risking security. Just never let on that you know each other IRL.
If you are always working on the ground floor radicalizing people and always cutting contact at the first sign of trouble you will raise class consciousness while avoiding becoming a lure for the feds.
If you are contacted by a member of another group, exchange names of the groups and some sort of contact information. Tell them to tighten up their OPsec because the feds are out there. Warn against individuals who are part of multiple orgs/cells as they both inflate the perceived number of total revolutionaries and they are also a security risk.
On initial contact tell the other how many other cells you have made face to face contact with and roughly how many revolutionaries you have 2nd hand contact with. (like if you know a guy in a group of ten people and you know another guy in a group of 5 and there are 4 in your group, you know of 3 cells and 20 revolutionaries.) Keep a running tally of names of groups you have met and how many people they have and how many revolutionaries they have 2nd hand contact with. Never share any more detailed than the number of groups and the number of members of all the groups you know of. (these numbers are like how some viruses release a signal protein so that they know when they have enough numbers to switch out of their dormant phase.)
Your group should always tell eachother when they meet ofther groups and develop a script for how to deal with contacts. “I am aware of your group. It is nice to know we have allies out there. We need to keep each other safe by keeping our distance.” Do not merge groups. We need more cells not bigger ones a smaller cell is more secure.
I don’t condemn objects for the things people do with them. Like knives or TNT or nuclear energy AI can be used to make things better for people or worse. It just depends on who is using it and how.
Pruning and harvesting takes a bit more time and energy than maintaining a lawn but not much. Who cares if critters get a share? A single berry is more than you get from a lawn.