Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Sit down around the fire place, if you have fire wood, please place it on the rack beside the fire. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!

We have our own Matrix homeserver at https://genzedong.org; you can make an account with any Matrix client (e.g. Element). We also have a GenZedong Matrix room (see the sidebar for more information), and there’s a general Lemmygrad Matrix room at #internationale:genzedong.org.

Join our Discord if you are so inclined

Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory (and other books), you can use z-lib, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    24·
    2 years ago

    This week is ´The Warmest Week´ in Belgium where the entire week is spent by people to collect money for charities. This year´s theme is underpriviliged people in poverty. My classmates and I were tasked by school to do an action to collect money for the org running the thing.

    We all didn’t want to collect money, because we felt like asking rich people for money for us to donate would be stupid. We also do not want a one time charity thing to become our thing, because we all feel like we need structural changes to society instead of a week of donating money.

    We eventually decided to start a clothing collecting org where we give away the clothes for free to people in need. So far I have collected 7 full bags of clothing and the other 7 or 8 people in the group are getting there as well. We are also dropping flyers in the neighborhoods of the city to ask people to donate. We hope we can keep this up for longer than this week.

    Fuck a society where this is needed.

    • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
      18·
      2 years ago

      Based of you to do this. Comrades of mine, representing a communist group, did something similar. Perhaps opportunistic, but it’s a great way to make connections and raise consciousness - we put a small pamphlet in the bags detailing some of the failings of capitalism, pushing for worker solidarity etc.

      Not to mention it’s just a good thing to do.