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Tailism is the tendency to expect the workers and the revolutionaries to be separate entities, with the revolutionary's role being to heighten the contradictions in order for workers to spontaneously perform the revolution, so the revolutionary is actually following in the tail of the worker; it's the opposite of vanguardism, which sees the professional revolutionary as the most advanced workers, whose role is to perform the revolution on behalf of, and as part of, the working class. The vanguard is ahead of the revolution in this model.

The problem with tailism is that if you aren't a worker, and your engagement with the workers is purely by informing them (and with the specific goal of tantalizing them into performing revolutionary action) then you are an outsider with no genuine connection to the workers, who have no reason to trust you and will see through your shallow engagement with them.

E: Just to be specific about what I meant, you shouldn't sugarcoat and distort the truth when talking with other people just for the purpose of baiting them into becoming leftists.

When in doubt: agitate, educate, organize

What are the key contradictions to agitate about? Palestine, Yemen, climate crisis (especially the trade war with China undermining green energy efforts, this angle is very important and reaches a lot of ears since you can also point out that this contradiction is hurting their pockets directly), workers being displaced by automation, trans rights and immigrabts being crushed in a rising fascist movement in reaction to neoliberalism's collapse.

And what does the western left have to offer, and educate people on? Connections between Black liberation and indigenous movements in Palestine, China's mutual development approach, our connection to imperialism and how it benefits us (the hard part of this step) and how it hurts us. Be realistic and explicit, don't be a tailist.

As far as organization there really isn't a one size fits all answer but the critical development for the western working class this year is automation, which means a sector of workers that was previously far from precarity now joins the same space as gig workers, as automation vastly lowers the skilled labor that goes into that sector. The left has to come up with an answer to the gig economy, which is inherently atomizing, and find a way to work outside of the failing left liberal institutions.

It's a more practical goal to expel the remaining Gazans elsewhere, rather than going full final solution. If they create enough devastation it eventually forces other states' hand to accept the refugees. But some people in Israeli government clearly want what you say, so the goal varies from ethnic cleansing via extermination of half the population then forced relocation of the remaining part, or full extermination. Source: Norm Finkelstein

No Republican had to give anything up to achieve this, this is literally just the Democrats doing exactly what they want to do because they want to do it.

They have a journalistic responsibility to include relevant information and seek comment from relevant groups. The article doesn't include any comment from healthcare professionals or advocacy groups, nor does it contain any information about potential consequences of the surgeries being banned. It fails to actually inform the public on the issue at hand, and the auxiliary information that is brought up just puts the medical procedure into question by positing it as controversial (yeah, controversial because of transphobes) and questionable. Presenting only a limited section of the issue, but making it seem like it encompasses its entirety, makes this article functionally the same as transphobic propaganda.

We more or less already live in that reality since Biden has done nothing to combat states banning abortion or going after trans people. Libs cope by pretending it's not happening and Biden is actually a progressive.

The most important issue is not up for voters to decide. But it's still of critical importance that you vote for Joe Biden, or we might lose democracy forever!

If anything, the opposite is true. The left was much stronger than it is now under FDR, and the New Deal didn't really kill any momentum for the left by itself, instead the Red Scares and McCarthyism had to perform that function. However, under neoliberalism, workers in the imperial core have turned more reactionary and often incorrectly prescribe blame on immigrants for their poor employment numbers and stagnating wages. The poor understanding of globalism leads people to believe that their enemy is the sweatshop worker in Indonesia, instead of the shareholder in Wall Street. The left can offer an alternative paradigm for the people that fall into that reactionary trap by showing that development isn't a zero sum game, we can have manufacturing at home without protectionism, xenophobia, and imperialism holding the international working class back.

It's even funnier with this guy, the Quartering, because all his understanding of politics comes down to thinking that women and minorities shouldn't be on screen. It's purely aesthetics.

Yeah I watched half of it with my little Hexbear sickos, I slept through the other half.

Ah, fair enough. So we agree then.