I’m currently in the process of joining my local communist youth. Its really cool, the people are nice and not at all like the stereotype if angry politics nerds. And compared to online leftist spaces, there isnt really any discussion on whether China or Cuba is communist or things like that. Its all about local organising, which is much more useful than arguing about countries on the other side of the world.
Even though I am completely new, they have already asked me to write a proposal about digital security, because I refuse to use things like Whatsapp, Google Hangouts or similar.
The only thing I can complain about is that all of them are quite busy, so they are quite slow at answering my questions, like how the party works or what exactly I am supposed to do during my premilitancy.
If there is a party near you, definitely contact them. If you dont get along with them, you can always decide not to join.
Nice, hopefully you can convince them to go with matrix.
I had the same experience, in my big-tent not even explicitly communist org, no one really cared all that much about bashing AES, that’s mostly an online thing.
Damn are you me? I recently did a whole presentation on digital security for some of my comrades! I try to be patient when slowly having people realize the importance of security online. I’ll just paste a toot from 2 months ago as I think I summed it up pretty well.
Getting people to take online privacy and security more seriously is an accomplishment.
Just because someone’s a communist and already distrustful of for-profit and big tech companies doesn’t mean they’ll know anything else. As much as FOSS and privacy against the bourgeois state jives with communism, the culture is permeated with an anti-user outlook and techbro-ness. It’s difficult for non-tech savvy comrades to get or understand immediately thanks to the societal push for commodified tech.
I also included an easy example of asymmetric encryption featuring some of our fav revolutionaries, because for me at least it was difficult to grasp public/private key stuff when I first learned about it. It was very well recieved!
I was going to join the PSL, but due to work I had no time for their weekly recruit zoom meetings. I did join the SRA (socialistra.org) back in April, and am working with other members locally to form a local chapter. I live in a Trumpistan enclave, so it’s hard to find like minded people nearby lol.
I’m just copying my reply from https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/37601
I’m currently in the process of joining my local communist youth. Its really cool, the people are nice and not at all like the stereotype if angry politics nerds. And compared to online leftist spaces, there isnt really any discussion on whether China or Cuba is communist or things like that. Its all about local organising, which is much more useful than arguing about countries on the other side of the world.
Even though I am completely new, they have already asked me to write a proposal about digital security, because I refuse to use things like Whatsapp, Google Hangouts or similar.
The only thing I can complain about is that all of them are quite busy, so they are quite slow at answering my questions, like how the party works or what exactly I am supposed to do during my premilitancy.
If there is a party near you, definitely contact them. If you dont get along with them, you can always decide not to join.
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Nice, hopefully you can convince them to go with matrix.
I had the same experience, in my big-tent not even explicitly communist org, no one really cared all that much about bashing AES, that’s mostly an online thing.
Now that its rebranded I might try and introduce them to it. So far they are already switching to Telegram and Jitsi (slowly).
Damn are you me? I recently did a whole presentation on digital security for some of my comrades! I try to be patient when slowly having people realize the importance of security online. I’ll just paste a toot from 2 months ago as I think I summed it up pretty well.
I also included an easy example of asymmetric encryption featuring some of our fav revolutionaries, because for me at least it was difficult to grasp public/private key stuff when I first learned about it. It was very well recieved!
I was going to join the PSL, but due to work I had no time for their weekly recruit zoom meetings. I did join the SRA (socialistra.org) back in April, and am working with other members locally to form a local chapter. I live in a Trumpistan enclave, so it’s hard to find like minded people nearby lol.