I currently only organize with DSA but I’ve been thinking of leaving because they don’t align with my goals anymore(tldr: lots of electoralism). I want to organize with a more marxist or politically firm group but I’ve been so burned out I can’t get myself to find one and commit to the time. I feel guilty that I’m not acting/organizing fast enough because we’re in a dire time where fascism is rising and people are dying. I also feel guilty with going on about my life, like planning travel or saving for the future, because I feel like there’s no time and travel/saving/planning doesn’t matter when actions are being taken to oppress marginalized groups and the working class. I feel like we’re in the middle, if not passed, the do or die point and there’s still so much to do.
I want to keep my revolutionary optimism, where I trust our community will be able to come together and preserve in hard times, but when we’re all so disjointed, it’s hard to keep my spirits up.
Anyone else feel this way? How are you coping ? I’m looking for support and community.
More or less anyone in Amerika who’s not indigenous or a descendant of a slave is a settler in my view, possibly excluding refugees from Amerika’s wars and coups. Mentality doesn’t affect whether or not someone’s a settler, just like being a bourgeois class traitor doesn’t make them proletarian. Being born as a settler is obviously not a personal choice, but I’d still be very suspicious of a nation-wide communist party whose leadership doesn’t largely consist of black and/or indigenous people. It’s another story if it’s a relatively small organization focusing strictly on local issues, but they should still acknowledge that they’re living on stolen land
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