So I am being brought to one of these No Kings marches on Saturday. Any pointers on talking to libs in a way that they will listen and get curious about Socialism?

A couple orgs will be there including PSL, but from comrades’ stories from the last two of these they don’t actually bring up Socialism during their speaking slots and talk about imperialism instead. I would like to be more explicit in tying what is happening to Capitalism and especially try to get across that Trump is just a symptom of the problem.

    • starkillerfish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      i feel like you are misunderstanding the point of a march. if you measured every single activity by how close it gets you to revolution, you would be able to do anything

      • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Did the Bolsheviks run marches like this. And if so, how did they run them in a way that built revolutionary power? Did Mao’s movement do these? IDK

        It is funny thinking of some lib in 1916 holding a “If the Tzar was gone we’d be at brunch” sign

        • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Yes. The Bolsheviks absolutely had marches and demonstrations leading up to the revolution. And many strikes would inevitably be followed up with mass demonstrations of people in the streets on top of the many other mass mobilizations that led to things like International Womens Day and bloody sunday that led to an explosion of revolutionary consciousness and exposed the state as a weapon of class oppression.

          The same is true with the Chinese revolution- of course there was a protracted armed struggle- but this was after many mass mobilizations that led to things like the May 4th movement, which led to the CPC itself. Even in new China, demonstrations and mass mobilization played a massive role in things like the great proletarian cultural revolution and shaped modern china post revolution. Even during the long march, the CPC went through each town and set up Lenin Clubs (which often offered simple social activities like ping pong or basketball) and put on revolutionary opera performances (typically just a way to draw in peasants to a message about uniting china against japanese imperialism, not socialism itself)