Across the Canadian left, politics is increasingly reduced to a familiar routine: open Canva, draft a statement on the issue of the day, post, and repeat. Yet these statements share a defining feature: they offer no plausible path to changing the conditions they describe. It feels like meaningful political action, but it isn’t.
rebuilding real political capacity takes time, resources, and members willing to do slow, unglamorous work offline. The question is what concrete structures actually get people from posting to participating?
That’s the big question. How do you start organizing people in a meaningful way and attracting them towards doing productive things instead of just doing performative things.
I can think of some things like if it’s about housing, organize a tenant meeting if it’s about labour rights, support a strike fund or canvass, if it’s about an international issue, hold a fundraiser or phone campaign so politics becomes participation instead of just posting. Not that im posting anything of substance. Lemmy is the only place im communicating on and for the most part i just comment stupidity. (Edited words)
That’s basically what needs to happen, but we just need a lot of people doing it in coordinated fashion. The internet can help here, but ultimately it’ll be up to community efforts.
rebuilding real political capacity takes time, resources, and members willing to do slow, unglamorous work offline. The question is what concrete structures actually get people from posting to participating?
That’s the big question. How do you start organizing people in a meaningful way and attracting them towards doing productive things instead of just doing performative things.
I can think of some things like if it’s about housing, organize a tenant meeting if it’s about labour rights, support a strike fund or canvass, if it’s about an international issue, hold a fundraiser or phone campaign so politics becomes participation instead of just posting. Not that im posting anything of substance. Lemmy is the only place im communicating on and for the most part i just comment stupidity. (Edited words)
That’s basically what needs to happen, but we just need a lot of people doing it in coordinated fashion. The internet can help here, but ultimately it’ll be up to community efforts.