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The US left being a counterculture sucks (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I always feel like I'm hanging out in a punk/hardcore music scene (various anarchist groups, psl to some extent) or with lame improv nerds (dsa). I don't see either of these groups connecting with very many working class people. This is obviously a huge problem but (at least where I am) there is very little attempt to organize or recruit people making minimum wage, fast food workers, service industry, manual laborers etc. I mean shouldn't this be the main priority right now? I don't know I'm just venting but I'm baffled by how bad at organizing these groups are. Do they really just like being this cliquey group that is hard to get into and that's what really matters?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I think one of the relatively large trot groups (US SWP?) went through a phase in the 70s where they were aggressively anti-counterculture, they all wore nice clothes and got normie haircuts and we're strongly anti-weed, among other signifiers. The only thing it really accomplished was making them look even weirder, and ended up isolating them (further) from both the "new left" and from mainstream society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

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