Note to a Young Activist

Note to a young activist, none of whom will likely read this or listen to it if they do

1) Center Left parties often win elections: Blair, Clinton, Obama.
2) Farther Left parties rarely win elections and when they do, they don’t last long because they have no clue what to do
3) The current status quo is unsustainable, inequitable and needs massive reform or replacement ,
4) Rage about the status quo is perfectly understandable but responsibility for it should include the Left for its failures as well as not expecting the Right to change as the status quo works well for them. Don’t expect magically fair media either.
5) But there is little point in this rage unless you first understand how we got here aka the causes of the status quo for which you need some history and some economics
6) Without understanding the systemic nature of the current system, you have nil chance of changing it. This is really hard work
7) And once you understand the current system well, you have a chance to develop a reformed or replacement system This is even harder sustained attention, years of work the Left hasn’t even started.
8)Most voters, even those screwed by the current system, have a lot of stake in it or can be convinced they do by the Plutocrats
9) So voters are only likely to support changing the current system if you have a coherent, tested, credible alternative. And a strategy to implement it after winning their support. Good luck with Leninist vanguardism sans winning elections.
10) Without all this, you will be pissing in the wind as we say in England and the Right will continue to win elections and make things worse and destroy the planet.

Though I may well be completely mistaken and Far Left Pigs can indeed fly without a program of status quo replacement.

If you think so please contest any of these points you think mistaken. Generalized content free, argument free denunciation of these points doesn’t really do it, does it?