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What's the best way to organize?
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this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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Actual existing socialist movements that became actual existing socialist states successfully taught people to read using the book capital.
None of the roles involved in operating the socialist state or tearing down the bourgeois state preclude literacy.
Experts in their fields need to understand history and theory in order to be able to figure out new forms of organization.
We are not storming the battlements. There are not ditches to be dug. All serious communist movements in the imperial core strive to understand the conditions of the moment and determine how they should respond to them. That requires history and theory.
Again, if you just feel like you’re gonna fly to pieces if you don’t do something, there are anarchist and electoralist groups that will put you to work.
It sucks to have a fire lit under your ass and have the people who did it say “now sit on your burning ass and read this long boring book and have a talk with us about it afterwards.” It’s not something you can make an effective end run around.
But how are you preparing for the revolution?
Here's a hypothetical. You have all the theory and your group of people for your academic discussions on what that means and how it applies to the modern day, while making sure to keep anyone out who's unwilling or unable to complete your reading list. One day, in the not too distant future, the time comes. There's a crisis and the conditions for revolution have arrived and the people are calling for it. How do you react without a coalition? Who's going to follow you? How do you actually takeover the government without building a community and infrastructure to do so?
It would be so cool if you had done the fucking reading so we could have that conversation.
That's your problem. You won't even have the conversation with someone less educated than you.
How do you expect it to go?