If anything i am more inclined to be mistrustful of self proclaimed revolutionaries with large channels because that tells me they and their followers may be spending more of their time and energy online consuming and making content as opposed to irl doing real organizing work. You can have a million followers and that’s all well and good for education and propaganda but what have you done lately for workers, how have you fought landlords and corporations, when is the last time you went out to participate in direct action against war and against the arming of Nazis and the Zionist entity?
That might be because there’s nothing that’s being gatekept…
ASWC: Actually Successful Western Communism
By what metric is this success defined?
YouTube subscriber count. The revolution will be livestreamed.
Following this logic, we should nominate Hasan Piker as General Secretary and never let him resign.
If anything i am more inclined to be mistrustful of self proclaimed revolutionaries with large channels because that tells me they and their followers may be spending more of their time and energy online consuming and making content as opposed to irl doing real organizing work. You can have a million followers and that’s all well and good for education and propaganda but what have you done lately for workers, how have you fought landlords and corporations, when is the last time you went out to participate in direct action against war and against the arming of Nazis and the Zionist entity?
You’re preaching to the choir, but it never hurts to spell it out for casual observers.
Maybe I should use “/s” more often just to play it safe…
Having a weird online fan club is building communism: you heard it here, folks