I’ll get dragged, I’m sure, but if your plans for a mass movement rely on millions of people getting the equivalent of a masters degree in dialectical materialism, you’re gonna have a bad time. Like, nothing against reading/studying, but you’ll sway the masses with propaganda and exemplification. What I like best about anarchists, is precisely that they get out into the streets and do stuff. Not that reading and doing are mutually exclusive, but IME there’s quite a lot of (negative) correlation. All I’m really saying, is let’s all play to each others’ strengths, and work together.
if you want to be taken seriously on a subject, people will expect you to be familiar with at minimum the broad strokes of the major arguments in and around that subject and be able to productively engage with discourse about them. on a broad subject like “how to make socialist revolution” this familiarity will likely come from reading a few books. that is a long way from “the equivalent of a masters degree”.
No one is getting a masters in dialtectical materialism. You need to listen to 15 hours of audiobooks, tops, to have a basic handle on it, or 5 books. One month of 30min a day,
Yeah doing stuff is great, but if you’re aimlessly doing the wrong stuff because it’s shortsighted then you’re wasting the energy that has been proven to bring about real long term change (revolution).
I’ll get dragged, I’m sure, but if your plans for a mass movement rely on millions of people getting the equivalent of a masters degree in dialectical materialism, you’re gonna have a bad time. Like, nothing against reading/studying, but you’ll sway the masses with propaganda and exemplification. What I like best about anarchists, is precisely that they get out into the streets and do stuff. Not that reading and doing are mutually exclusive, but IME there’s quite a lot of (negative) correlation. All I’m really saying, is let’s all play to each others’ strengths, and work together.
if you want to be taken seriously on a subject, people will expect you to be familiar with at minimum the broad strokes of the major arguments in and around that subject and be able to productively engage with discourse about them. on a broad subject like “how to make socialist revolution” this familiarity will likely come from reading a few books. that is a long way from “the equivalent of a masters degree”.
No one is getting a masters in dialtectical materialism. You need to listen to 15 hours of audiobooks, tops, to have a basic handle on it, or 5 books. One month of 30min a day,
Yeah doing stuff is great, but if you’re aimlessly doing the wrong stuff because it’s shortsighted then you’re wasting the energy that has been proven to bring about real long term change (revolution).