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Need help fighting local Granola Mafia
Gainesville Florida seems to be in the same sort of situation as Berkeley was, with ossified sixties burnouts preventing class conflict anarchists from organizing. Any tips on how to break this?
Hey,
I'm in Florida and I have a strange request for the Anarcho-Communists and allied activists in the Bay Area: how do you assert class struggle ideas in a place where sixties thought has ossified into a highly authoritarian bourgeois liberalism? I'm asking you because, from what I understand, Berkeley and related areas resisted punk rock culture when it came to town and also were places where the formerly libertarian sixties generation became the new party line enforcers.
If you must know, the town I'm referring to in Florida is Gainesville, often called the Berkeley of the South during the sixties. We're now dominated by burnouts who want to assert their tepid liberalism over any workerist challenge, which has created an atmosphere where the new currents of social thought, summed up by the phrase "Libertarian Socialism", are being killed at their roots for the benefit of scenester, priveleged, bourgeois activism.
Any tips? Please e-mail me.
I'm in Florida and I have a strange request for the Anarcho-Communists and allied activists in the Bay Area: how do you assert class struggle ideas in a place where sixties thought has ossified into a highly authoritarian bourgeois liberalism? I'm asking you because, from what I understand, Berkeley and related areas resisted punk rock culture when it came to town and also were places where the formerly libertarian sixties generation became the new party line enforcers.
If you must know, the town I'm referring to in Florida is Gainesville, often called the Berkeley of the South during the sixties. We're now dominated by burnouts who want to assert their tepid liberalism over any workerist challenge, which has created an atmosphere where the new currents of social thought, summed up by the phrase "Libertarian Socialism", are being killed at their roots for the benefit of scenester, priveleged, bourgeois activism.
Any tips? Please e-mail me.
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1) Many international NGOs are based here and want to prevent that.
2) Authoritarian communist groups oppose large direct action, preferring to focus on recruitment efforts instead.
3) Anarchist groups are non-serious, non-organizational and generally reflect a really silly subculture that despises most every normal person.
4) The Green Party is huge here.
How to overcome these things? I'd like to hear opinions on that.