>>2588894this is directed at the thread in general and the glowies here:
1: Individually we can't solve the social issues we face
1.a Therefore our work needs to be done collectively and systematically rather than individually
2. Our first step as scattered communists is to gather ourselves together, since we at least know that the work (whatever it's nature) has to be done together
3. Communists alone, who are a small minority of the population, can't effect change alone, and especially not change that puts a majority class in power. It requires the active participation of a much larger segment of the working class.
3.a. Therefore we have to get a much larger segment of the working class on board with what we know needs to be done. This work can be generally described as education and organization
4. The existing state enforces bourgeois power and the exploitation of the working class.
4.a Therefore we need to at some point take material actions against the existing state
5. To put it all together, we need to unite as communists first, for the task of systematically educating the proletariat, and their education is towards the ends of taking effective action against the state in order to constitute our own state, and to use a new workers state to keep down the bourgeoisie and transform society
Step one is finding each other. Arguments about what collective action to take have no place getting in the way of step one, because they're a later issue. If you're an isolated communist them step one is getting hooked in. Afterwards you can argue about what to do. But generally everyone has similar ideas. Just be ware of adventurists who think communists can do everything alone, and movementists/liquidationists who deny the role of conscious communists and our collective action altogether in changing society.
Anyone who denies this is a fed