The Panthers did free before school breakfast and after school babysitting and all sorts of actual community building like that. The PSL does protests and craft events and that's it. I guess providing consistent services is an order of magnitude more difficult than organizing marches but it just doesn't seem like the marches are getting us anywhere.

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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah despite the critical tone I used I'm optimistic that American commies are getting better at this stuff. I see competent comrades peeling away from troubled orgs and doing cool things all over the place and I think those seeds you mentioned are being planted.

[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ok prob awful thought, if folks (i.e. population at large) are already OK with subscribing to influencers, personalities, etc. is it possible to do the same for like a few communists? like bolshevik being a smaller group than the mensheviks...

IDK just spitballing don't @ me pls

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[–] Kestrel@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

There are comrades getting funding for projects through patreon or ko-fi, and there's also stuff like comradery.co