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
I think the way we’ve been engaging with libs is fine. Try to sway the less ideologically set ones and troll the obnoxious bad-faithers. In terms of internal dialogue, whenever we have our own struggle sessions it’s good to remember Mao’s framework of “unity-struggle-unity” where we remind ourselves we’re all scientific socialists and don’t want to have a split, then we have a debate, then we come together, the losing party hopefully being swayed and both sides coming to a greater understanding.