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This seems to be common among many people but I dont understand why its a bad thing? The most common reasoning that I see is:

>newspapers are outdated most people use digital

true, but theres nothing wrong with pairing an online presence with phsyical print, websites and podcats will mostly only be viewed by people who are already your members or sympathizers, meanwhile selling on the street gets it into hands of people who never knew you existed

>you'll get more people if you just make it free

Quality matters more than quantity, there are times for free flyers but most of the time they will just be skimmed and trashed or most likely not read at all, someone who actually purchases it will almost certainly read it cover to cover and be more likely to take interest in joining

>There are more important things to be doing like union organizing

Ok but you and what army? the numerical strength of the movement is way to small to meaningfully influence the broader labor movement, we have to build up our forces first

>Its larp

meaningless statement with no substance. Could be said about the tons of other century old failed ML parties that are just social democrats

Nobody under the age of 55 reads newspapers anymore. People already struggle watching 5 minute videos. Why should they read newspapers?

Trots are just a huge pre-1917 Bolshevism larp. The whole newspaper-thing only has aesthetic value, no practical one.

>newspapers are outdated most people use digital
Along with your point, there's something nice about tactility and not needing to paste the whole thing into HTML just to highlight stuff.
>someone who actually purchases it will almost certainly read it cover to cover and be more likely to take interest in joining
Free copy on website, pay for print.
>>2720945
>Nobody under the age of 55 reads newspapers anymore.
Boomer that doesn't talk to young people detected. Every generation has digital-only people, paper-only people and people that engage with both, the majority in the 3rd category.

It's just student activism and a book club while they attend University.
Once they graduate they will all join Social Democratic parties or become Neocons.

>>2720945
not true at all really at my school people read the school's newspaper all the time. actually interested people will read something whether its on a phone or a paper.

>The whole newspaper-thing only has aesthetic value, no practical one.

The practical value is that it gets the ideas out to people. your communist website is most likely only visited by people who are already your members and we already have extensive proof that left wing content is algoritmathically supressed on social media

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>>2720940
It's not a bad thing. But it's just a thing that Trots are kind of weird about their papers and made them into a fetish that they come to believe will have some magical effect.

>>2720940
Im apart of a trot party, although im not a trot
I personally think a lot of people actually enjoy physical newspapers, it allows a fairly unique way and powerful way of introducing party ideology, the bourgesisie might have a monopoly on billboards and TV ads, and the internet, but by producing in a underrated form of communication, it actually gives the parties a big advantage in my opinion.

>>2720994
I agree, I'm in the RCP and whnever people have seen our papers they are always impressed by the professionalism of it.


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