I know it’s a stretch, but if someone or their org wants to come, by all means do!
Every year my party organizes Manifiesta festival. It’s a leftist festival with music, debate, sports, film and food and it takes place in Oostende, Belgium.
Topics of debate and guests of this year include, but are not limited to: Chris Smalls (the Starbucks Union guy), debates on Niger and Burkina Faso, Cuban and Palestinian comrades, Jeremy Corbyn (yeah, I know lol) and many more. There will also be free leftist movies to watch, local food and drinks and countless of other activites. Oh, and I will be there as well lol.
Anyway, here is the website for those interested :)
One of my turning points was listening to a talk at a socdem rally and enjoying the talk that quoted Lenin. Until that point, I’d thought that Lenin was so obviously a mass-murdering psychopath that he wouldn’t be worth reading. Certainly not worth praising. What was this trickery, and why is this speaker cherry-picking bits where it sounds like he cares about ordinary people? I can’t believe people fall for that! He does sound right, though. Hang on, what’s happening to me??
I was also surprised to learn that he’d written anything at all and thought, ‘huh, maybe it was a speech or a book of speeches’. You can imagine my surprise as I realised this beautiful bald genius wrote a small library worth of books.
I should add that I was highly educated by that point. The propaganda machine is powerful. I don’t think my past self was a rarity.
You’re bound to get some people thinking differently.