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What about disabled people?
But, yes, you should be joining an org if you can.
We should honestly have dedicated disabled socialist orgs. I've gone back and forth on this idea a few times but the thing that's hung me up on pursuing it is the fact that participation in any org no matter to what degree is very likely something the tories here would use to say you're capable of working and therefore should lose benefits.
In the U.S. you can lose disability by taking a volunteer position, or by doing volunteer work that Social Security decides is “substantial gainful activity.”
Over here it's about capability. If you're capable of attending a meeting for an org, you're capable of attending a workplace... That kind of thing.
If you made it remote they'd end up saying you should be doing remote work if you can do remote organising for an org.
This whole thing is about significantly limiting the ability for the disabled to be politically active, since they're a group with more time to dedicate to political activity and more interest in doing so above the norm. It's "behave, or else".
They'll do it while simultaneously saying everyone needs to go back to the office because remote work ~~doesn't let us abuse employees as much~~ is too difficult for the abled.
Yeah. Disabled folks can still organize. But I imagine if we were elected to leadership it could be a problem: https://advocacymonitor.com/elevate-blog-can-you-run-for-office-if-youre-on-social-security/ . So if a disabled person becomes an org's Chair of the Disability Caucus they would, in the eyes of Social Security, no longer be disabled.
There's a lady who shows up at Palestine protests here who has the palestine flag attached to her wheelchair. You do what you can. From each according to their ability and all.
Spiritually, disabled people can usually go outside/build communism. "Go outside" is really about logging off from your internet patterns and trying to have human interactions, which you can do from home in case a disability makes literally going outside uncomfortable or impossible.
Of course, with generalizations we should also understand that there will be exceptions but that naming them right away would prevent the call to action from being pithy. So if a person's disability precludes building socialism, I'm sure OP and others would understand.
Though I would say that there are many ways to build socialism, so even someone that thinks they can't might just be unaware of ways they could help out.