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I still support the "Don't buy anything" days but this is my feelings to it (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

imho the chapter on "Tactics" in Alinski's Rules for Radicals provides a lot of ideas on how to avoid performative activism.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From the description

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one. […] Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

In today's social climate with today's regard for rational discourse & democratic tradition? Are we doomed?

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Alinsky lived in a time of McCarthyism and Nixon and the Southern Strategy. I'm not an expert on the guy, but I don't think he'd say we're doomed.