I truly believe that the best way to start organizing working class people behind Marxist principles of proletarian emancipation is to stop shoving our rhetoric, language, and cultural tendencies down working class's people's throats. And even then, I don't know if it's possible.
just because reading left theory changed our lives and shaped our world views, it shouldn't be a prerequisite to radical politics. If it alienates the people we want to help, then get rid of it. If the left has been colonized by capital, then let them have it. We don't need it.
Let's be serious, be neutral, and let people know that the misery of their lives isn't a product of their own failures necessarily, but a predetermined destination of anyone who lives under a capitalist mode of production. People don't care that you're a leftist or a Trot or a...
communist. They do care that you take them and their problems seriously and have ideas about how to deal with those problems, SERIOUSLY. I don't care about leaving the left or post-left (though I think it's catchy), I do care about connecting to people outside my sphere.
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