Title feels like clickbait for people who at all unsure on organizing and it worked on me. I watched the whole thing. Well played, Bes.
My main takeaways, trying to put it in plain language:
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Reformists screw things up by looking at issues as isolated and disconnected, as singular struggles you can overcome gradually. They downplay or ignore the totality of political struggle and systems of power, the way it impacts and is impacted by every sector of life.
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Tailists and Commandists alike treat the masses almost like the weather, as if they are a phenomenon beyond understanding that you have to work around the patterns of, without really being part of them. Tailists more focus on chasing the issue of the day to join in, without going further than that. Commandists more focus on trying to instigate turmoil and collapse (kinda like accelerationists) with the hope that this will lead to spontaneous overthrow. Both fail on having a united communist program to bring to people, with which to raise their consciousness and develop them into organized revolutionaries, rather than isolated actors in disconnected struggles. Both get mired in things like fatalism and inevitability, rather than seeing themselves as part of a tapestry of struggle.
Whereas the revolutionary must be educated in the communist understanding of change: that of dialectical and historical materialism. This is the primary tool with which they are able to be rid of bougie ideology, by understanding their place in history as neither random nor fated, but component part of systems that are constantly in motion and which develop into other systems again not through randomness or fate, but through the grinding of their contradictions and the movements of the people who exist within them.
