Trying to organize with my local Worker's Party (Marxist-Leninist) to organize and join in anti-Imperialist War demonstrations in my city.
Didn't say why but mentioned to my boss I needed the day off or at the least the evening off. The event I'm attempting to attend begins at 5pm.
My Comrade asked me today if I'd be able to make it to the Demonstration. I tolfy Comrade I would check my schedule.
So I go to my workplace to check the schedule.
Instead of having the day off or even just the evening off, I've been scheduled from 1pm to 11pm.
That's right. Asked for a day off. Received my longest shift of the week at 10 hours.
This is why Capitalism is so effective at squashing dissent. When trying to attend a specific political event a week or two in advance, you still may not get even those specific hours you're looking to attend.
Then we are repeated told in our youth that being politically active means coming out and voting for team red or team blue every four years, maybe every two years if you're particularly interested, and at the very most, perhaps knocking on a few dozen doors for your favorite team red or team blue candidate.
Any kind of real political action or political engagement outside the meainstream is discouraged at a minimum or violently supressed by SWAT Teams if you appear to be gaining strength.
Workplaces are thoroughly uncompromising, rarely affording employees an afternoon off to vote let alone to attend Worker's councils, demonstrations, protests, or other radical action. And in many cases, should your employer find out your radical views and actions, expect to be fired for some unrelated imagined sin against your employer.
The deck is so thoroughly stacked against Workers to organize or take collective political action. Radical politics are greeted with unemployment and violence, in some cases, as with many Marxist-Leninist Organizations, it is not uncommon to be tracked, harassed and investigated by the FBI if your organization is particularly large or active.
Marxism-Leninism is a threat to Capitalism through and through. The Bourgeoisie treat it as such and will go to any lengths to suppress it whether culturally and organizationally, or through employment consequences, and even going so far as open State violence, intimidation and oppression.
Comrades, chances are the Bourgeoisie go these lengths because they fear us. And they fear us because we represent the greatest threat to Bourgeois rule.
Marxism-Leninism has proven again and again to be the most effective Revolutionary Marxist tool to fight Bourgeois rule. They know it, they treat it as an existential threat, and it's time we acted like it!
Hit those streets! Fuck the bosses! I'm going to organize one way or another and you all should too! Praxis is everything