One of the most common questions we get is whether or not we should “hide our power level” when it comes to our political positions. In this video, we look at the words and practice of Karl Marx, Fred Hampton, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Harvey Milk to tackle the question: should we hide our true positions as we build our movement?
I have a lot of success with easing people into things, but it really depends on the person. If they’re already open, you can come at them directly, but if they’re just starting to question why things suck, in my experience it’s better to stoke the flame of their frustrations before presenting them with the solution.
How do you do it? I always get very granular when I know zooming out and asking more questions would probably be the correct approach, I just can’t activate that part of my brain during conversation
It’s a person-to-person, situational thing. Usually I don’t say shit until they give me an opening. Like, if someone says something to indicate they’re starting to catch on that every story they hear about the DPRK seems too silly to be real, I will jump in and give them some actual information about Korea, like why there even is a North and South Korea in the first place.
Yeah, I guess most of my openings are people who are still civility-brained to some degree and just privileged to be white and insulated from shit. Like how do I come back at “those guys killing Jews, like the embassy shooter, thats just harming the cause and is gonna Make people feel even more strongly about destroying Palestine”. I feel like I get too caught up in the specifics of things like that where zooming out could probably be more effective I just don’t know how to in the moment. Wish I took a debate class
Urbanism focused approach can work with liberals, ease in to talking about how capitalism makes things so isolating and all the community is sucked out of our environment.
Others I usually don’t bother with too much.