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i wish people would stop trying to turn activism into careers. it's impossible without sacrificing ~desperately~ needed principles. impossible. not at a company. not at a university. not at a non-profit. not as a lawyer, not as a doctor, not as a social worker, etc... (1/n)
there is nothing radical about the middle class or going to college or inherited wealth (any quantity), and we MUST organize outside our careers. middle class labor unions and the labor aristocracy have done what, exactly, for the oppressed? against the violence of imperialism?
a comrade reminded me how a single mother w three jobs consistently shows up to the tenants meeting. what's your excuse? i don't believe in middle class burn-out anymore. if you have enough time to read these tweets, it is absolutely bare minimum to show up and put in the work!
it's our responsibility to build revolutionary movements right where we are at, with full risk of the possibility losing our class position. and maybe more. but there is so much more to win!!
also, as a side note, please don't take this personally!! this is a self-criticism too. I've absolutely made every last petite bourgeois mistake there is (organizing with non-profits, wanting to be an academic of social movements, becoming a documentarian for the movements, etc.)
small addition: be extra weary of activists that manage to turn their organizing into careers! look at academics, at non-profit organizers, at lawyers, at local politicians. look at what principles they sacrificed and all the revolutionaries they turned against on the way there
anyway, go get your degree if you want it! go get the job you like! but remember that all the work for progress against empire just won't happen at your workplace if you are even remotely petite bourgeois. find a job that gives you the flexibility to be out there
