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I think we could get more people on board with political re-education if we just called it all sensitivity training
@coriander the term sensitivity training implies that it is workplace-based which is probably accurate to how such a thing would need to be implemented in the united states
especially assuming Not Immediate Magical Full State Communism, building communist workplaces, requiring workers to be educated in and follow communist principles in their work lives, and requiring that people who don't abide by those principles suffer workplace penalties (with ready access to training for correcting behaviour) is probably the most expedient way to get lots of people introduced to the necessary concepts quickly
@coriander i'm sure there are people who lost their jobs over the jan 6 bullshit who would be happy to participate in an educational thingy if it meant a guarantee of stable work yk? that's not an option for them here; once people are marred politically in the u.s. there is no path towards correction, even in cases where the people themselves might be completely willing
@coriander anyway i'm very critical of american economies and how we think about work, naturally, and the question of which people and how and why we can or should “rehabilitate” as “productive workers” is complicated (this road, in nonscientific societies, can also lead to conversion therapy, and while communism should of course be based in science america historically has had a somewhat looser relationship)
BUT i also think communists need to make use of the political apparatuses at hand, and the workplace is the primary site of power in american society currently, and one where people are generally more tolerant to change and restriction compared to other aspects of american life
@Lady Yeah I also don't love the idea of focusing just on the workplace because the goal shouldn't just be to re-educate fascists into being better workers, it should be to help them be better members of society and their communities (INCLUDING but in no ways limited to their workplace), but I do also see how making use of work in the US is probably the best way to start things right now
It's like how easy it is to get people to agree to socialist and communist thought if you explain basic tenets of the relationship between worker and employer and just Don't Say Communism