/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

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>>2174955
So what are the 5 essential activities for the party?

Mass education, agitprop, preparing for revolution. Probably more but that's just off the top of my head.

I'm reading Gramsci right now and he seems to be theorizing the party as something like the workers' state in utero. I feel like our conception of political party as this neutered fundraising apparatus keeps us from thinking of it as something much more expansive. The party should be essentially building alternative governmental structures. So things like schools, resource centers for people in need, m*litias, transportation networks, medical services, libraries, commons, etc.

>>2160978
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We already have a party.
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>>2175208
I really wish more people read Gramsci.
You're basically right in your interpretation.

For Gramsci 'the party' wasn't an electoral NGO (although that doesn't mean Gramscian praxis is against elections), but a class coming to power. Organic intellectuals (aka authentic leaders) are not just people *from* social classes but are actively faithful to that class in terms of their lives and cannot simply assume godhead knowledge, but must maintain constant and open lines of communication with the 'masses' as well as humility.

I think your conclusion of welfare and mutual aid is absolutely spot on. Be the change you want to see, while at the same time building defences against the estaliblishment who absolutely will try and stop you.

>>2174970
>Mass education,
No, we don't need more reading lists thank you.

>agitprop,

For what end? Agitated people need a place to go.


>preparing for revolution

LOL and LMAO. Fucking do something. How did the western left become both vanguardist in terms of ideas and lazy in terms of objective organising?! Lazy Vanguard is what I want to call you types.

>>2177067
I think building alternative structures may become non-optional as the existing structures become more and more decayed. I remember like 5 years ago a fundie Christian acquaintance was joining up with something like a local health insurance coop outside of the insurance structure. Just him and 50 other people he knows from church. Obviously that's small potatoes but I think people are more adaptable and flexible in their beliefs than we often give them credit for, it's just that they are responding to their own experienced conditions. I guess maybe it's the job of the party and the organic intellectuals to help catalyze and guide that development. Gramsci talks about how the capitalist state grew up inside the feudal state, and of course capitalism is significantly more alert and hostile to socialism than kings were to capitalists, but I think maybe as the systems decay there will be more space for those structures to be built.