What do these people even do besides making videos? Because you can’t make an actual workers party without, you know, workers. One of the reasons our party works is because it is run by workers. People with actual jobs. In factories. In offices. In the public sector. In the unions. Real people who don’t have the time to make obscure YouTube videos. We do have those, of course, but they are a minority among our members.
‘We made a party!’ Cool, and now what? How are you going to reach the people working at the Ford factory? Are they going to watch your videos and become a member? Are you going to stand at the factory gate at 5am?
This all just seems like terminally online behavior, though I could be wrong of course.
This is actually my biggest criticism of these people. Ideological disagreements aside, it’s all just so performative, it’s more entertainment than anything else. They are not trying to do real politics or real organizing, they are trying to be content creators or social media influencers with a revolutionary aesthetic. Hence their pretentious LARP-y language.
I’m sure there are a few exceptions to this of course but by and large this is the impression i get.
To be fair, they tried doing stuff in the real world before.
As in, lazily stacking the CPUSA (America’s old Soviet-aligned communist party, that still struggles on as a kind of minor wing of the Democrats) with people who follow them on social media. This was supposed to achieve – something, though nobody I talked to could ever tell me what. When it predictably didn’t, they pulled this stunt.
What do these people even do besides making videos? Because you can’t make an actual workers party without, you know, workers. One of the reasons our party works is because it is run by workers. People with actual jobs. In factories. In offices. In the public sector. In the unions. Real people who don’t have the time to make obscure YouTube videos. We do have those, of course, but they are a minority among our members.
‘We made a party!’ Cool, and now what? How are you going to reach the people working at the Ford factory? Are they going to watch your videos and become a member? Are you going to stand at the factory gate at 5am?
This all just seems like terminally online behavior, though I could be wrong of course.
This is actually my biggest criticism of these people. Ideological disagreements aside, it’s all just so performative, it’s more entertainment than anything else. They are not trying to do real politics or real organizing, they are trying to be content creators or social media influencers with a revolutionary aesthetic. Hence their pretentious LARP-y language.
I’m sure there are a few exceptions to this of course but by and large this is the impression i get.
To be fair, they tried doing stuff in the real world before.
As in, lazily stacking the CPUSA (America’s old Soviet-aligned communist party, that still struggles on as a kind of minor wing of the Democrats) with people who follow them on social media. This was supposed to achieve – something, though nobody I talked to could ever tell me what. When it predictably didn’t, they pulled this stunt.