Demonstration againts our right wing government where I live today and the organizers specifically stated that symbols related to the USSR and “other symbols of authoritarian communism” are not welcome.
So, stayed home.
Not sure if I should have gone anyway, but it just all feels so performative. They had pretty much copied the reactionary fascist statement againts the symbols of communism in their social media post.
You are right. Yet I did not go because I am just one person and I didn’t feel all that safe alone. I have a long history of being in the margins and getting bullied, so did not have the strenght this time.
Which is why I think the idea of the masses is so powerful, had I comrades here by my side it would feel a lot less risky.
Can’t but help to also think how succesful the division of everything has been because at the moment I don’t really even know where I could go to find my comrades in my area. There seemingly isn’t really any options that aren’t liberal, yet I know they must be somewhere. But hegemony is a helluva force.
I’ll try to find leftist folks next. Maybe I can get others to come with me next time.
I will also admit that my passion for these particular demonstrations wasn’t that high as these are folks doing this spesifically within parliamentary democracy who still think all this happened because the plebs voted wrong and if we just vote correctly, all will be ok again. It’s being outraged at the social justice stuff, not really for anything beyond that. But I did want to critically support this as they did mention workers rights and border policy, even if in passing.
This is real though too. Putting yourself individually in danger isn’t really helpful in most instances. It’s only worth going to something like this in a group as part of an organization. If you’re by yourself with your commie flag you’re at best going to be ostracized and not taken seriously and at worst be in actual danger.
Probably an unpopular opinion but, I go to lots of demonstrations for stuff. If I know I’m there with other comrades I’m openly commie. If I’m not I stay focused on whatever the thing I’m demonstrating for (usually union action) and keep my commie to myself. For my own safety and because it’s more helpful to whatever cause I’m pumping numbers for if I’m not perceived to be causing issues
Yeah thinking I’ll just join the communist party here. They are a bit too capitalism friendly to my liking, but there I could also find a reading club for my currently solitary Marx reading.