Hello comrades, I read a comment on a post either on lemmygrad or hexbear talking about how most discourse happening was of poor quality and indicative of a lack of genuine leftist groups in the imperial core. Basically if there were patty’s with some teeth they would enforce party discipline and education and that would lead to higher quality discourse online.

I also read some of Lenins2ndcat’s comments which were very patient when they were interacting with users from other communities.

Is there anyway to work on like, an online party discipline? Or like having users who are very good at discussing with libs have a more concerted approach to their interactions? It really seems that much of us are often too aggressive and meme-y and as fun as that is it really isn’t productive.

I get that this isn’t how praxis or anything happens, it seems more like the way we engage could be more productive and fruitful in the long term and considerations like this might go a long way.

TL;DR Planned economy but for memeposting

    • ImOnADiet
      142·
      1 year ago

      yeah I have to admit since my org is pretty dead in the summer I spend way too much time online lol

    • WithoutFurtherDelay
      52·
      1 year ago

      I agree with the spirit of your comment, but let me nitpick

      We are not organized, there’s no discipline, no organizational structure, no mechanisms to enforce things, no participation to come to conclusions and analysis.

      We can simply create organization, discipline (as in enforcement of behavior) is entirely possible with the correct online organizational structure, there are plenty of mechanisms to enforce things in an online organization, and participation would come with time

      These same criticisms could have been made about the idea of making the first socialist party before the first socialist party was made. These are things that we have to build ourselves no matter what.

    • urshanabi [he/they]OP
      13·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the response. I have noticed that many of the comrades in my local org do not engage online and with their limited time they prefer to do material action which they can be certain of.

      Could I ask, as there are a number of comrades online who do not have the access to a local org, and who manifest the lack of organization, discipline, etc. would a more formally declared subset of users fill in this role until perhaps access to a local org comes along? I’m honestly thinking like, Mao saw the peasantry as a useful force in his environment when trying to bring about socialist change, are the unorganized members of the community (both this and at large) not in a similar position?

      It very much seems to me that the online environment is completely dictated by capitalists and their preference for a type of engagement which relies on hedonistic tendencies to counteract any potential revolutionary force. I am not advocating for a lack of pleasure as it is completely necessary, rather a space where it can be taken back for different aims as is evidenced by lemmy and the fediverse at large. It really seems that as someone in the imperial core there is a specific advantage in engaging online which does not make sense in other environments as a physical presence would be more apt. Maybe a lemmygrad strike force? Putting fear in the hearts of liberals everywhere.