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Last irl meeting I had with comrades we talked about how we need to have something like this, a basis for meeting up beyond volunteering-style political participation. Thankfully we all like each other on a personal level and take turns cooking each other food so that's enough for us but for a broader-base movement you do need a hook to get people in that isn't just politics.
As always the right have an advantage here because they have extensive funding and patronage networks with the rich. For obvious reasons leftists, in their diametric opposition to rich people as such, do not have this. There is that singular ML billionaire and that other hundred-millionaire leftist guy in the US southwest but that's about it.
They also have a willingness to start businesses, which is going to be a fact the left must reckon with in order to have any organisation like this.
Right now the only businesses the left is currently running and accepting the existence of are the propaganda ones, youtube, twitch, pods, etc. The left needs to broaden this view to more physical businesses as well, ones that exist in the community and not just in the digital space. If it doesn't then it simply will never have anything like this.
more 👏leftist👏billionaires👏 ~/s~ Idk what kind of businesses you want people to start beside say, coops. Aren’t most reactionary businesses just the owner following their class interests or existing rich bozos propping up bs?
Some of them are chuddy merch grifts specifically intended for fundraising. Now, you could argue that printing shirts and stickers and posters and flags in a co-op is something leftists have done forver, and you'd be right about that, but when you start a store for thin blue line merch or an agitprop site selling reprints of public domain theory or a food supplement grift or whatever these bozos are doing, it makes a difference when you have the funding to start out with several full-time employees, can afford advertising to make yourself known, can data mine information on potential donors and get additional funds if it takes longer to get everything going. It's much easier to scale this kind of stuff up when you go in with more capital than a used screen printer.